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Historical notices

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HISTORICAL NOTICES

OLD BELFAST

AND ITS VICINITY

A SELECTION FROM THE MSS. COLLECTED

BY WILLIAM PINKERTON, F.S.A.. FOR HIS INTENDED HISTORY OF BELFAST,

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS, LETTERS, AND BALLADS.

O'MELLAN'S NARRATIVE OF THE WARS OF 1641.

BIOGRAPHY OF MARY ANN M'CRACKEN,

NOW FIRST PRINTED.

Mitb flDaps ant) 3lIu6trations

EDITED, WITH NOTES,

ROBERT M.JOUNG, B.A., J.P., M.R.I.A, F.R.S.A.

Hon, Sec. Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society

Author of the * ' Town Booh of the Corporation of Belfast ;" " Ulster in 'g8 "

Co-Editor of the " Ulster Journal of Archaeology"

SwayaycTC ra 'ir€pur(rtvo'avra KAocr/xara, Iva firj ti diroAijrat

BELFAST

MARCUS WARD & CO., LIMITED, ROYAL ULSTER WORKS

W. MuLLAN & Son ; Ollev & Co., Ld.
London : Elliot Stock. Dublin : Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ld.

1896

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EDITOR'S PREFACE.

1 H L, PUBLICATION OF THE "TOWN BoOK

OF THE Corporation of Belfast," in
1892, would seetM to liave awakened fresh
interest in its history, and ilu Editor Ims
been favoured with many original documents
relative to tlte Borough and its vicinity, of
which a selection are printed in this present
volume. The most important of titese is the
collection of MSS. made by the late eminent
antiquary, William Pinkerton, F.S.A,,for his
long-contemplated work, "THE HISTORY of
THE TOWN AND CASTLE OF BELFAST, WITH
NOTICES OF THE IRISH BRANCH OF THE CHICHESTER FAMILY,"
presented by his widow to ihe Editor in September, iSg^., with t/te
request that they might be used in whatever way he t/iought best.
After a careful examination of these voluminous papers, it was con-
sidered most filling lo print a selection of the unpublished manuscripts,
so that the public might be the judges of the amount of original
research undertaken as preliminary to the composition of tlu intended
book.

This had been partially recognised by George Benn in the preface
to his " History of Belfast" which is based to a large extent on the
foregoing collection. It would appear, however, that in his natural
desire to use as far as possible his own material, many important
facts alreoiiy available in the Pinkerton MSS. escaped his notice. It
must also be remembered that he proposed to limit the scope of his
work to the town of Belfast, whereas tlte historical notices gleaned by
Pinkerton from every available source relate to tio insignificant part
of Ulster.

William Pinkerton was bom in Belfast on 22nd fanuary, i8og,
at 22, Bridge Street, the residence of his father, Andrew Pinkerton,
who had come from Paisley, his native town, some years before, and
establislted a discount office, then a lucrative private business. He
had married, shortly after setting up his office, the widow of Ebenezer
Black, manager of tlte " Belfast News-Letter" at the time Alexander
Mackay had acquired this valuable property. William Pinkerton was
sent ia the Belfast Academical Institution as a pupil of fames Knowles,
then English Master, and father of the famous fames Sheridan Knozvles.
His education was continued at the Belfast Academy, where the
Rev. William Bruce, D.D., was the Principal. Here he acquired a
knowledge of classical literatme. afterwards of great use in his historical
researches. In 1832 the Principal gave his farewell address, and the
only copy preserved was written by W. Pinkerton. After he left school,
he followed for years a seafaring life, and settled for a time in Pennsyl-

VI Editor's Preface;

vania. On fus return he married Miss Susan Watson^ daughter of
Thomas Watson^ Bark Place^ Kensington^ and took up his residence at
Ham^ near London^ where he commenced literary work about 1850^ to
which he devoted the remainder of his life.

His rare critical acumen and unwearied faculty of research in the
bye-ways of history quickly found appropriate expression in sundry
contributions to ** Chafnber^s Joumcd*' and " Book of Days^ To these
were added ** Notes and Queries^ to which he contributed many valu^
able articles from 24th March^ 1851 (Vol IIL)^ till 25th February^
i8yi (4th 5. VIL). An obituary notice of him appeared in the issue of
Sth August^ 1 87 1 (4.th S. VIIL^ p. 118). Amongst other periodicals^
he contributed to " The Anthropological Review*' " The Fisherman's
Magazine^' and " The Fields But it was in the " Ulster Journal
of ArchcBology'' that his most valuable papers appeared. Robert S,
Macadam started this magazine in January, 18 jj, as the result of the
antiquarian loan collection shown in the Belfast Museum at the
British Association^ September^ 1852, W, Pinkerton's name first appears
as the contributor of a letter relative to tlie price of victuals when
Schonbcrg was at Carrickfergus in i68g ( Vol, I.p, ijj). It is evident
from his correspondejtce with Robert S. Macadam t/iat he spared neither
trouble nor time when writing these articles^ actuated by the strong
regard he felt for the country where lie was bom, and the town in which
he had passed his youth. He writes in i8^g^ " / have become a
London-Irish Rifleman, yet I Iiave not tfu slightest intention of deserting
your colours'' (Macadam MSS.).

For many years he liad thought of writing an exhaustive history of
Belfast ; but the first public inti^nation of his intention seems to have
been in his favourite " Notes and Queries'' (3rd S. III., p. 143). He
adds, in a notice of Barnaby Googe — " In /J7J Walter Devereiix, Earl
of Essex, was induced to attempt t/u complete conquest of Ulster. This
is not the place to allude to the court and private intrigues which led to
such an impolitic and foolhardy undertaking. The writer will have to
treat of these matters at large in his forthcoming history of the most
important town of that Province.^'

% He wrote to a Dublin friend about this time — " / have been for the
past few years endeavouring to collect material for a history of Belfast ^
my native town. And I have^ as stated in * Notes and Queries I gone
over all the ground of Reid's * History.' "

Amongst the " Pinkerton MSS'' is a slip of paper on which he has
written — " Dec. 2^ 1865, The History of the Town and Castle of Belfast^
with notices of t/te Irish branch of the Chichester Family, by William
Pinkerton, F.S.A. If there be anie which are desirous, &c. Of the
period we know but little, and that is very useless for our purpose."

W. Pinkerton had all the qualities essential to the historian. Capable
of infinite pains in searching for his material, he was able to use it to
the fullest advantage, and express his t/toughts in easy and accurate
English.

Without prefudice, and caring only for the truth of things, he was
free from tlte partizanship which disfigures the works of many Irish
historians.

Editor's Preface. vii

This can be in part explained by his long absence from Ireland^ and
the freedom of thought acquired by residence in tJte United States.
He was on intimate terms with the leading Ulster antiquaries, as his
letters testify, including tlie Revs, IV. Reeves (afterwards Bishop)
and Classon Porter, R. S. Macadam, E. Getty, f. W. Hanna, George
and Edward Benn, and the Rev. f. O^Laverty, PJ^., the latter still
happily surviving. In the summer of 1864. lie visited the North of
Ireland, and made many enquiries for historical purposes.

His health, which fiad been long indifferent, s/iowed symptoms of
breakdown early in the sixties, and he liad to relax his efforts, although
lu zuas anxious as ever to assist a friend y as the following extract from
a letter, dated October ij, i86j, to R. S. Macadam shows: — '* My
colleague, Mr. Robert Cliambers, broke down, and, much against my
will, I had to go to tlie front. I felt it as a kind of point of honour
under the circumstances, or I would not liave risked my own health
in doing so!^

By the discontinuance of the " Ulster fournal of Archceology,'' owing
to the death of R. S. Macadam's brother James, Pinkerton was free
to give his undivided attention to his " History of Belfast.'' His
last article in t/ie ''fournal' was entitled, '^ Some Notices of Sir
Arthur Chichester, Baron of Belfast." Unfortunately for his posthumous
fame, lie Iiad planned his proposed work on too vast a scale for one
lifetinu to execute, resembling in this respect two of his eon temporaries.
Bishop Reeves and Edmund Getty, both of whom left important works
uncompleted.

When the material accumulated at such a sacrifice seemed ripe for
tlie historian's purpose, and his ready pen Iiad indited a few scattered
episodes in the history of tlu town he loved so well, " municeps non
ignotce civitatis',' the end came, not unexpectedly, on jothfuly, i8yi.

Soon after his lamented decease, the extensive collection of MSS.
formed by him for his projected work were generously lent by his widow
to his old friend, R. S. Macadam. From some correspondence in the
Macadam MSS., it appears that George Benn took them to his fiouse at
GUnravel, Co. Antrim, in the autumn of i8y2, where /u made an
inventory (given in the Appendix). He also wrote to R. S. MacacUun —
" / am sure I could, if agreeable to all interests, make up a moderate-
sized volume from the papers by bestowing some time to extracting
sofputhing more from tJie old * Town Book' if still in Mr. Torrent
possession, the ' Belfast News-Letter,' and some otiier easily obtainable
sources."

The result of this proposal was the well-known ^'History of Belfast'^
by George Benn, published by Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co. in i8yy,
a work of sterling value, much of which it owes to the researches of
W. Pinkerton.

After the " Pinkerton MSS." had been given to the Editor, and a
careful collation mcule of them with the portions used by Benn, it was
seen that a great deal of valuable matter had been omitted or passed
over with brief mention.

Amongst the more notable items so treated are Monroes Raid on

viii Editor's Preface.

Newry ; Monroe in Belfast ; Meredith's Relation of Several Services ;
the Commonwealth and the North of Ireland^ including CromweWs
letters ; the Chichester Patents ; the unique extracts relative to King
William III, and his Court at Belfast, including the text of his
Proclamations in the North of Ireland ; the Island Magee Witc/tes^
and Molyneuxs foumey to tfu North,

In preparing the volume for publication, the Editor considered it
would increase its historical value if some other original matter
relative to the history of Belfast and its vicinity was added, so as
partly to fill up the unavoidable gaps in the Pinkerton papers, and thus
afford additional materials for future historians.

Amongst these will be found some " State Paper'' extracts ; the
Ulster Assizes, 1615 ; Account of fohn Corry; Diary of Col, Bellingham ;
Correspondetice of Robert Greene ; Letters of Mrs, M' Tier, and Biography
of Mary Ann M^Cracken,

Friar O'Mellaris ^'Narrative of the Wars of 16 4.1," translated by
R, S, Macadam from tfu original Irish, is included in this volume, as
an unpublished account of a most eventful period in the history of this
country, and from tlie further circumstance tfiat the translation was
made by an accomplished Irish scholar, who shortly before his death
/tad expressed keen interest in the present ivork, and had offered his
valued assistance. After his decease, his surviving relative, Miss Anna
Macadam, most kindly placed his literary MSS, in the Editor's /lands,

T/u /listorical material contained in t/ie present volume is
arranged as far as possible in chronological order. It is believed
that almost all of it is now first printed. T/ie Editor has given, in /lis
Notes, original extracts from MSS, in /lis possession and elsew/iere,
rat/ur t/ian quotations from printed works.

All t/ie full-page and ot/ur illustrations by Messrs, fohn and

f, W, Carey, of Messrs, Cauy, Hanford & Carey, were drawn for

this book from suggestions and information supplied by t/ie Editor,

T/ie p/ioto-engraving has been executed by Mr. fosep/i Lewis zuith /lis

accustomed skill.

T/ie Editor s i/ianks are due to Messrs. Walpole Bros. ; R, Coc/irane,
F,S.A., Hon. Sec. R.S.A.I. ; and Prof. G. F, Savage-Armstrong,
M,A,, D, Lit,, for kind permission to use i/ie blocks on pp, ij, 1^4,'
3, 46, 163; 23, 2^, 139, 141, respectively.

He also takes t/iis occasion of returning /lis sincere t/tanks for t/ie
original MSS., &c., kindly presented to /iim by Mrs. IV. Pinkerton, Miss
Anna Macadam, Miss Gordon, and C/iristop/ier Aitc/iison, Esq.,f.P,

His acknowledgments are especially tendered to t/ie Earl of
Belmore, GCM.G., for t/ie notice of fo/in Corry, and illustrative
blocks ; J, Rib ton Garstin, Esq., D.L., V.P., R.I. A., for t/ie diary of
Col. lielling/iaui ; Mrs. Adam Duffin, Mrs. fames Henry, afid t/ie
Misses M'Cracken, His best thanks are /icreby given to the Countess
of S/iaftesbury, t/ie Baroness von Stieglitz, Lord O'Neill, William
M^Cammond, Esq., f.P,, Lord Mayor of Belfast ; Sir Samuel Black,
Town Clerk; Alderman Lavcns M. Ewart,f.P., M,R,l,A,; Alderman
fames Henderson, M,A,, f.P, ; t/ie President of Queen's College, Belfast ;

^1 ix ^^^^^^H

^1 iJu Dean o/Dromore ; Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J., LL.D.; Rev. W. ReyneU, ^^^^^H
^1 B.D. ; Rev. G. Hill; Rev. C. Scott, M.A. ,- Rev. W. T. Latimer, B.A. ; ^^^^^H
■ Rev. /. O'Laverty, P.P., M.R.I A. ; IV. J. Fitspatrick, Esq., LL.D., ^^^^H
^H F.S.A.; T. H. Torrens, Esq., J.P. ; John Salmon, Esq.; Classon Porter, ^^^^^^^^H
^1 Esq.; W. Swanslon, Esq., F.G.S.; John Vinycofub, Esq., M.R.I.A.; ^^^^^H
H E. H. Clarke, Esq.; H. W. Clarke, Esq., M.A.; W. H. Drennan, Esq.; ^^^^H
^H F. B. Simms, Esq. ; Don Jorge ONeill, Lisbon ; Marriot R. Datway, ^^^^^H
^B J. P., Esq. ; James Logan, Esq. ; James Johnston, Esq. ; F. J. Bigger, ^^^^^^H
H Esq., MJi.LA.: F. W. Moneypenny, Esq.; J. H. Bland, Esq.; James ^^^^H
^H Graham, Esq.; A. H. Coales, Esq.; D. Keay, Esq.; the Librarians oj ^^^^^^^^|
^H British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, Beljast Free Library, Linen ^^^^^^^^|
^H Hall Library, and the other friends mentioned in the text. ^^^^^^^^|
^^ ROBERT MAGILL ^^^^^^H
^^^ Katkvama, Bct/ail, .V«'r>n/irr, iSiji. ^^^^^^^^^^H

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CONTENTS.

Editor's Preface, containing some account of W. Pinkerton, v.

Report by Robert Cowley, 1538 ...

Claneboy, December, 1542

Piers and Malbie to the Queen, 1567

Irish Linen Yams, 1572

Lord Deputy and Council to the Queen, 1573

Answer to Lord Treasurer's Objections, 1 594

Petition of Agents, &c., Carrickfergus, 1 594

Sir A. Chichester and Island Magee, 1601

Letter from Thomas Walker, Newry, 1601

Inquisition taken at Ardquin, 1605, and Smith's Grant

Timber m Ulster, 1608 ...

The Plantation of Ulster. Chichester to Salisbur>', 16 10 ...

Assizes held in Ulster, 161 5

Order of the Exchequer, 16 1 8

Commission on Waste of Woods, 1625

Customs, Excise, &c., in Ireland, 1637

Monroe's Raid on Newry, 1643 •••

The Cessation, 1643. Account of Corn ...

Monroe in Belfast, 1644

The Parliament and Belfast, 1645. Belfast Trade, &c., 1646-48

A Relation of Several Services by Major Meredith, 1649

The Commonwealth and North of Ireland, 1651-60

Account of John Corry, 1654, by Lord Belmore ...

Account of Stranmillis, Belfast ...

Certificate by Daniel O'Neill. Petition of P. Russel, 1663 ...

Account of Sir George Rawdon ...

Confirmation of the Chichester Patents, 1 669

Description of Ardes Barony, 1 683

Proclamation of Schonberg, Belfast, 1689

Diary of Colonel Bellingham at Belfast, 1690

King William III. and his Court at Belfast, 1690 ...

Journey to the North by Dr. T. Molyneux, 1708 ...

Depositions, Island Magee Witches, 17 10

Correspondence of Robert Greene, 1 72 5-26

^Jrs. M*Tier's Letters to Dr. W. Drennan, 1776-84

Life of Mary Ann M *Cracken, 1 770- 1 866 ...

Narrative of Wars of 1641, by Friar O'Mellan, 1641-47

Appendix. Inventory of Pinkerton MSS. and List of Books

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SEPARATE FULLPAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

Lawson*s Map of Belfast Harbour, 1789 ... ... ... {Frontispiece)

Dedication Plate, Arms of City of Belfast, in Full Heraldic Colours

{To face Title-page)
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The Bel£ut Corporation Address to King William, 1690

Sir Arthur Chichester presenting Charter to Corporation, 1613

View of Belfast in I S05

Attack on Belfast by Col. Venables, 1649

Interior of Assembly Room, Old Exchange, 1793

Burning of Belfast Castle, 1708 ... ' ...

T. M'Cabe denouncing proposed Slave Ship Company, 1786

Execution of Henry Joy M*Cracken, 17th July, 1798

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED WITH TEXT.

Portion of Mercator's Map of Ulster, 1594
Chart of Belfast Lough, 1693
Portrait of Mary Ann M*Cracken
Map of Site of White Linen Hall, 1783
Old Houses at Queen's Square, 1854

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.

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View of Belfast and Long Bridge, by

G. Petrie, r.h.a. {reverse of half-title)
Sir Samuel Black, Town Clerk

{reverse of title)

Old Town Seal v

William Pinkerton, F.S.A ix

Lord Mayor of Belfast xii

The Ford of Belfast i

Carrickfergus Castle 2

Ancient Seal of Carrickfergus ... 3

Queen Elizabeth 7

Dunluce Castle 10

Arms of Elizabeth, Trin. Coll., Dublin 1 1

Weaving 12

Irish Girl Spinning 13

Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex ... 20

Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone ... 22

Castle of Ardkeen, Co. Down ... 23

Arms of Savage of the Ards ... 24

Sir Thomas Smith ... ... 26

Coleraine ... ... ... ... 28

Arthur Chichester, Baron of Belfast 29

Village of Masareene 31

Ancient Gallows, Carrickfergus ... 32

Arms of Enniskillen 32

Arms of Londonderry 34

View of Londonderry 35

Ancient Irish Sgian 36

Arms of Dungannon 36

Carrick-a-Rede 40

Felling Oaks for Belfast Castle ... 41

Connswater Bridge, 1603 44

Ancient Bell of Bangor 45

Seal of Customs, Carrickfergus ... 46

Bust of Swift, Trinity College, Dublin 48

View of Moume Mountains 49

Moume Mountains from Castlereagh 52

Arms of Dundalk 53

Charles the First 56

The Library, Trinity College, Dublin 59

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Covenanters tearing their Colours ... 60

Ancient Seal of Londonderry ... 63

Token of John Steward 65

Token of John Clugston 67

St. Lawrence's Gate, Drogheda ... 69

Cromwell in Ireland 70

Arms of Newry 72

Seal of Commonwealth 73

Seal of Belturbet 74

Arms of Dublin 74

Arms of Kilkenny tj

Gateway, Walls of Derry 85

Title-page, Venables' Experienced Angler 88

Arms of Munster and Connaught ... 89

Anns of Leinster 91

Anns of Waterford 94

Oliver Cromwell 98

City of Galway and Arms 99

Belfast Church made a Fort 102

Arms of Cork 105

Silver Salver of Claudius Gilbert ... 108

John Corr/s Coat of Arms 109

Token of John Corry, Belfast ... no

Silver Tankard of ditto 113

Old Water Works, Stranmillis ... 117

Lock-keeper's House, do. ... 118

The Quern 120

Hillsborough Fort 122

Portmore Woods 126

Arms of Donegall Family 127

White Abbey in 1800 129

Enclosing Deer-park, Cave Hill ... 130

Portaferry Castle 139

Ardkeen Church 141

Schonberg crossing Long Bridge ... 144

Old Belfast Castle 146

Gloves, &c., of King William III. ... 149

Signature of King William III. ... 151

Map of Battle of Boyne 153

Waringstown 154

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Old View of High Street

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^m Shane's Castle

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Belfast about 1780

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^H Giant's Causeway

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Battle of Antrim

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^H Castlereagh

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Old ExchanRc

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^L Viewof Belfast Lough, 1750...

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Benburb Castle

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William Ware

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Corporation Bellman ...

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^^^^^V Hearts of Steel attacking Barracks .

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Book-plate of Earl Donegal! 265

^ Shopin Castle Street, 1790 ...

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Belfast Book-plates ...

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^■^ Thurot's Landing

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^1 Autograph of Henry Joy M'Cracken

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Cocky Bendy

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Old Belfast.

•Report b^ "Robert (Eowie?, nOaster of tbe "KoUs,
on tbe State of 3relan&, HprK, 1538,

LSTER, which is in the North,
bordering with Scotland, long; after
the Conquest descended to the King
by the marriage of the daughter and
heir of the Earl of Ulster, by which
Earldom he might dispend yearly (as
I remember) 32.000 marks, whereof
I think at this day he hath nothing.
In this portion, being the greatest
of the five except Munster, these
Lords now inhabit, writing themselves princes, O'neill of
Ulster, O'donell of Tyreconeli, Felym Baccagh, lord of
Claneboy, as great a man of strength as O'neill, besides
these other great Lords, as Magwire, McMahon, Magennis,
O'hanlan, O'chaan, McWillie (a Welshman of the English
Conquest), Alexander Carragh McDonell, a captain of the
Scots, which hath conquered lands beside Knockfergus,
builded fortresses and there inhabiteth. Savage of the English
Conquest — all these being disobedient to the law. (Extract
Irish Correspondence, Stale Paper Offi.ce.)

Old Belfast.

Clancbou, Bee, 1542.

' HE L. D. advised a grant of Claneboy to
Niall Connalagh O'Neill (nephew to the
Earl of Tyrone), reserving Carrickfergus,
Olderfleet, and Coleraine. About the same
time, a Sir John Travers, who in the follow-
ing year was made Master of the Ordnance,
one of the many political quacks that have
from time to time attempted to cure what they did not under-
stand, wrote " Devices for the Reformation of Ireland "

(Vol. X., Art. Sj), and in May, 1543, the Lo. D. let Claneboy
to him instead of to Niall Connalagh.

Jan., 1562. L. L. Sussex exemplifies the expediency of
granting Claneboy to Niall Connallagh.

Mar., 1569. Sir Brian McFelim's Castle in Claneboy,
called Castlereagh, being from Knockfergus. In the way
towards Dublin, about ten miles, and three miles or there-
abouts from Belfast. (Vol. xxvii., Art. 40.)

Mar,, 1570. A Sir Thomas Gerrard and companions
offered to plant the Glynnes and part of Claneboy, if they

Clanebov. Dec, 1542. 3

were granted 100 horse and 400 foot, till the three first
crops be gathered, and the Queen's ships for defence against
the Scots. Also to have commission to levy soldiers,
labourers, and artificers in the counties of York, Lancaster,
and Cheshire. (Vol. xxx., Art. 22.)

Sep., 1570. Will. Pers petitions for some rembrance for
Sir Brian McPhelim, and a garrison to be placed for the
defence of the poor subjects of Claneboy.

Man, 1571. Sir Brian McFelim to L. D., explaining his
motive for agreing with Sorley Boy, by which means there
are more ploughs going in Claneboy than there had been for one
hundred years. The country too poor to bear more English.

July, 1571. Will. Pers to the Queen, requests that Sir
B. McFelim have the ancient lands of Claneboy on both
sides the Bann.

McFelim himself writes from Belfast to the Queen, same
date, to confirm to him and his heirs the lands of old belong-
ing to his ancestors, Lords of Claneboy, on both sides of the
Bann. Recounts his services. {Vol. xxxiii.. Art. 3.)

Enterprise to inhabit and fortify Claneboy for the use of
the Crown. (See Mem. which notes that this paper was
written before the arrival in Ireland of Smith and Essex.)
(Vol. xxxiv.. Art. 52.)

Captain Thos. Brown and Capt. Thos. Borrowe petition
the Queen — for the Arde from the mouth of the river of
Strangford to the river of Belfast, including Castlereagh, and
the woods by east that river adjoining to Kylwarling, and to the
Dufferin in fee farm. And answers to the objections to their
suit. End 1571. (Vol. xxxiv.. Art. 42,43.) {Pinkerion MSS.)

piers anb fll>a[bie to tbe ©ueen, fcb. 8th, 1567.

iUR most humble duties unto your Honors
\ remembered. Your Lordships' letters of the
1 8th of this Jan. we received the 27th of the
I same by a messenfjer of Mr. Marshall's, and
with the same one letter unto me, Capt. Piers ;
and before that we also received one other
' from your Lordships of the 12th of this
month, wherein your Honors do think good to send here Capt.
Gilbert's and Capt. Horsey's bands for the hastening away of
the Scots, which undoubtedly is very honorably considered of
your Lordships ; and although (as we have already adver-
tised your Honors) that Carleboy is gone with some part of
his men, yet, contrary to his promise (which we knew well
would so fall out), he hath left of his men behind him, whereof
the VIII score with Tirlagh O'neill be of them, iii score with the
Clanalesters which manure the land of Monery and Cary, and
Ix with Alexander oge McAlester Nary (sic). And notwith-
standing our knowledge thereof, we thought it good to dis-
semble our understanding, to the end that first himself should
depart, and then his company might be dispersed, whereby
we might the better compass their overthrow, which we shall
endeavour to do to the uttermost of our powers.

Presently upon Carleboy's dt;parture (according to the
opinion we had when we first agreed to include Alexander
Oge in the peace with Carleboy for the consideration afore-
said), the said Alexander being sent to by iis to come in to
acknowledge his duty unto the Queen's Majesty, utterly
refused so to do, whereupon we thought meet to leese {sic) no
time, but, concluding that the Abbay of Glanarme was a place
to annoy him most, we took it, and placed there Capt. Cheston
with his whole band and xii horsemen, at which time, with a
dozen of horsemen going before, we took 60 fat beofes of the
rebels, which we left with Capt, Cheston, and have appointed

Piers and Malbie to the Queen, 1567. 5

to send him by boat six weeks of other victuals, which day if
we had not taken it, it had been set on fire by them. This
was the 26th of this month, and this day Capt. Cheston writ
unto us that he sent unto him that so soon as he can get his
son to put in pledge for his good behaviour (who flieth from
him for fear thereof) he will come in ; and now he hath dis-
persed his creaghtes abroad, willing them to shift for them-
selves, and is in great perplexity, for the taking of this place
doth break their hearts. We have also placed in the castle of
Glenarme RandoU Oge McAlester Harry, who hath brought
thither his creaghtes, and manureth the ground ; who hath
assured us that all his brother's followers will come in unto
him, and likewise all the Clanalesters, which be the only men
which the Scots most trust unto, and this day their messenger
is with the said Randall Oge ; so that although there is no
doubt of the utter expulsing of the Scots and overthrowing of
this rebel, yet shall it not be amiss that, according to your
Lordships good consideration and device, the two bands
make their repair hither, provided that provision of victuals
for them may be sent, either before them or with them — we
mean malt and meal. And if we may have your Lordships'
consents, there is yet one other abbay, called the Market town,
where we would place another band of footmen with some
horsemen, which place being kept together with Glanarme,
shall bring all these parties of the North as civil as the Eng-
lish Pale, as also to keep out the Scots for ever ; the rest of
the country between this and the English pale is in very good
quietness. We have fortified Belfast, and have placed there
15 horsemen, so that .in this town we live as quietly as in
Dublin, and yet may it do more good that the two bands be
here, although they tarry not, to give a greater terror unto
those that be wicked or intend to be.

And where your Honors have been informed that for 600
men there is daily allowance given out for 900, we have not
known thereof, and can well discharge that if any be it is
only in bread, which is employed sundry ways, as by journeys
which we often make, by a larger allowance given to the
horsemen which be forced to keep boys, by hireing of churls
by the soldiers, which they be forced to do for fetching them
wood for their relief (and all too little), whom for want of
money they must pay in bread, and by other sundry accidents
which grow by necessity ; and yet, God be praised, here is

6 Old Belfast.

wheat enough had we mills to grind, which Brydges hath
taken in hand to make ; but if he go no better to work than
yet he doth (and contrary to all men's opinions), here will be
no mills made by him these seven years, and so much the
worse in that his best workmen which he brought from
Dublin be run away from him. whose names we send unto
your Lordships here inclosed ; it may please your Honors to
reward them accordingly. The meal, as the victualer saith,
doth begin to scant, and yet will go near to stretch out the
time limited. It may please your Honors to appoint some
quantity thereof hither ; and touching this overplus expences
(if any be), it will turn to small gain to us that have the
charge of soldiers, and therefore it behoveth us most to look
to it, as we do and will ; and where, upon the examination of
the soldiers in this point, we were informed that in lieu of the
overplus in bread they have wanted of their allowance in the
rest, we did give order, and still do, that they shall not
exceed 4d. per diem, saving, as is said, to the horsemen.

And where, in your Lordships' last letter, your Honors
wish to be ascertained of the present state of these parts, your
Lordships may please to understand by this before written,
that all things is in good case, and hope shortly shall be per-
fected ; and if it shall please Her Majesty now to cut through,
it is easy to be done. And touching our opinion of Tirlagh
O'neill, we cannot think well of him ; that, contrary to his
faithful promise which he made unto our very good Lord the
L. Deputy in our hearing, both for the putting away of those
Scots which at that instant were with him, and for the expuls-
ing of all others which after should invade these parts, hath
now entertained 800 of these lately landed ; and sure it is, if
your Lordships do not make sure work with him, as we know
your Honors will do, he will do as his predecessor did ; and
keeping him from his evil intents, we can warrant your Lord-
ships for these parts within our government, the way is now
open for the establishing the good quiet of this country. God
grant it may be well followed. For the true certificate of the
soldiers and others being here in Her Majesty's pay, I, Capt.
Malbie, this day took musters, and find the bands all com-
plete, but many soldiers very sick, and except your Lordships
stand our good Lords to remedy us, and to take order for the
staying of a great quantity of rotten malt wherewith our beer
is made (the example whereof we do send unto your Honors

Piers and Malbie to the Queen, 1567. 7

by this bearer to be seen and considered), we shall be all
poisoned ; as by proof, when we went unto Glanarme, being
but 12 miles hence, half of our footmen tired by the way, and
lay all night in the open field, and yet not being sick, which,
as they all agree, groweth unto them by the infection of the
drink made with this malt, which we, in the voice of them

all, most humbly beseecli your Lordships to remedy ; and
had not the quantity been so great as it is, we were agreed
with one whole consent to have paid for it not to have been
occupied, and to have drunk water rather than to stand to the
danger of the infection, whereof many of our soldiers be now
lying sick. And I, CapL Piers, appointed to have the muster-

S Old Belfast.

ing of Capt Malbie's band, do find it full complete, but divers
of them sick and on foot, whose horses be dead and spoiled
in service. I, Capt. Malbie, cannot advertise your Lordships
of the seamen, for that they be not here : but so soon as they
shall be come, I shall not fail to use my duty, and certify
your Honors accordingly. The wards of Yland Sidney
being lo, besides the constable, I must advertise your Lord-
ships by meer knowledge to be furnished, for that I cannot
go thither. That of this castle being xx'*' I found this day
furnished. The ward of Dunlysh, I am told this day by one
of the soldiers which came yesterday from thence, is furnished,
being eight, besides the constable, which we have appointed
in a fort not far from it called Dromure, which standeth to
great purpose, and especially for the victualling of Hand
Sidney. Here be pensioners — William Baker, late Lieu-
tenant to Capt. Browne, and Edw. Browne, late ensign-bearer
to him ; Christopher Blunt, late Lieutenant to Capt. Scryven ;
Jhon Cornwall, late Lieutenant to Gyles Cornwall ; and
William Spencer, late ensign-bearer to Capt. Wilforde ; and
Robert Munchman, provost-marshal, and their men.

Sir Bryan McPhelym was lately with Bryan Caragh
McCormock, his father-in-law, who hath promised him to be
henceforth a good subject, and at that time did Hugh
McMoretagh likewise. We intend to try them shortly as we
did Alexander Oge, and if it please, O'neill Bryan Caragh
dare not but be a good subject. Sir Bryan hath since been
very sick, but, God be praised, is recovered.

We have to inform your Lordships that Bridges and
his men take their meat and drink out of Her Majesty's
store, and forasmuch as we find great unlikelihood of the
building of the mills by him, we have bargained with a
Manskeman here, who will set us up one within this month
to grind.

And where we had made barcrain with certain of the
soldiers here to set upon the fortifying of this town presently,
and for want of money to have paid them in victuals, which
they were content withal, we do make stay now until we shall
hear from your Lordships for present provision of malt and
meal to be sent hither forthwith the rather for that purpose,
for which we humbly beseech your Honors, and for your
Honors' speedy answer in all the premises by this our mes-
senger sent of purpose, for the soldiers will not work except

Piers and Malbie to the Queen, 1567. 9

they may have their whole day s wages in victuals, which is
double allowance.

We be advertised that Sarleboy doth fortify in the
Raghlyns, and intendeth to inhabit there. He must needs
be put from thence when time serveth. He is now gone
into Scotland ; some say he will return shortly. Cneill's
messenger is with him, and so is a good spy of ours, by
whom we shall shortly understand their whole enterprises,
which we shall signify unto your Honors.

It may please your Lordships to send hither an alphabet
in cypher, for that sometimes such matters may happen to be
advertised as are not meet to be known, and by chance may
be intercepted by mishap, which often fortuneth, and by a
cipher is to be prevented.

We went this day to the brew-house to see this last brew-
ing, and there we saw that the grains, being hot, is as rotten
as anything can be, and that the wort would not run through
it, it lieth so hard clumpered in the vessel ; and yet is not
that malt so ill as this which we send to your Lordships,
which the victualer doth mind to occupy. We beseech your
Honors to consider of it.

Very now came a letter unto us from our singular good
lord, the L. Deputy, in which, among other matters, His L.
doth find fault with us upon your Honors' letters sent unto
him of our undutifulness towards your Lordships. We may
not deny ; but upon your Lordships' mistaking of our mean-
ing in our said letters, your Honors might well judge of us
otherwise than we intended ; and, notwithstanding, if it might
have pleased your Lordships to have given your own correc-
tion in anything that was done amiss, it had been punishmt.
enough, and yet we repose that trust in your Lordships' good-
ness towards us, that if we have been otherwise than have
becomed us your Lordships will salve it, and in our well-
doings your Lordships will not let to further our credit, in
which we most humbly beseech your Honors.

At this instant came a messens^er from O'neill with this
letter here enclosed, who saith that he hath sent away all his
Scots ; but we do think it but to be dissembling, all to win
time.

It may please your Lordships to break the malt, whereby
you shall see the goodness thereof; and if your Honors shall
so think good, we would humbly beseech you (for your better

lo Old Belfast.

satisfaction of this estate) to address hither some person of
credit, that may by lively mouth certify your Lordships fully
of the quiet state of this country, which your Honors shall
presently perceive by his quiet passage hither. And where
your Lordships sent hither a good number of broags, they be
so evil that they will not last above 34" hours. We will con-
clude in advertising your Lordships that presently CapL
Cheston writ unto us, that Alexander Oge with his Scots gave
him alarum, who, issuing out with part of his company and
his horsemen, slew the captain of the Scots, called Donell
McCane, and three more, and many hurt, who thereupon
(led, and one of his horsemen and two of his footmen were
hurt a little with arrows. Thus beseeching your Lordships
to dispatch our messenger away with remembrance of our
bounden duties, we most humbly take our leaves. From
Cragfergus the 30th of January, 1567.

Your Lordships' most obedient,

WILLM. PIERS, NICHOLAS MALBIE.
For the Queen's most excellent Majesty.
(Irish Correspondence, State Paper Office.)

3risb %incn IDarns.

Articles for Exporting Irish Yarn, March, 1572.

causes that maye move Her Ma'i'- lo graunte the
lycence for transporlinge of Iryse yamc from Irelatide into
Inglande.

Firste, because It hnihe beene laufull, tyll of late that

I restraini was made by an Acie of Parlement in Irclande,

It the petition of the merchaunies of the same cuncrye, pre-

I lendinjje that the yarne shulde be made into lynen eloih

there, which pretence takith no elTecle for latke of weavers

I and other artificers in that realme.

Also, where upon the transporlinge of the same yarne
ymes paste into the Counties of Chester and Lancaster,
the poorc people of the same cuntreies, especiallye aboute Manchester, were set
on worke to the releife of 4,000 persons uiihin that lordship only (as appcreid by
theire supplication redy to be exhibited this laste I'arlement), the same poore people
for lacke of wnrke arc vitterlye impoverished, living idely and redy to faule into
miserable shiftes and ccclremityes.

Also, where as theire grewc unto Her Ma'''- a yood revenue yerely by the
custome of suche yarne, in Her Highnes portes of Chester and Lyerpoole, the same
revenue is utterlie ecctinguished, whereof parte should be revived for so manie
packes as shulde be contained within ihe lycence required.

Also it maye be provid that for lacke of laufull vent the makinge of that yarne
is nowe decainge in Irelande, the people beinge naturallye gyven to idelnes, ivyll
leve of to manure theire grounde for flax, as bathe bene accustomed ; and lastely the
merchantes there do ordinarily sieale over the scid yarne into forrcine realnies, at
certayne havens and creekes in the Irishe cuntreis, where Her Ma''^- hath no
ofTycers to demaunde her dueties.

Therefore, for as muche as this Acie in Irelande is but an innovation, not
takinge the effecic for which it was ment, the eiinireis of Chessheire and Lanka-
sheire impoveryshed, and by this lycence to be relevid. Her Ma'''*- custome
revived, the tnakinge of yarne in Irelande maynleined. and the Irishe merchauntes
of theire unlawfull stelth prevented; I hope your uood Lordship ivyll the rather
upon theis reasonable causes perswade, that this lycence maye be graunied,
ecciendinge onlie to 3,000 packes after 6 score to the looth to be transported
into Inglande within 5 yeres next folowinge, with libertie lo attache and take alt

12 ULD BELFAS'

yame that shall come over to be solde, noi
Ma''"- piity to be ecctended to her poore subjee
be Ihankefull to Her Ma'i=- for this releife lo r
your Lordship as the meane for this benefil, and
the end].

ivarraunted. And besides Her
:3 before named, 1 shall alwayes
:, and thinke myselfe bounde to
Q humblie 1 rest [slightly torn at

Lord Deputy and Counxel to the Queen, 27TH June, 1572.

^rSr"! [£.r/r.„/.]

[t may plkase your most excellent Majestie,

■ed furthermore of late your

matter of your Ma'=»- lycense

, „ iiunted to Thomas Moore j'Our

', who also shewed before us your

of ihe aforesaid graunte, which we

iis by your .Ma">- said letters we ar willed)

i\ and enrolled in your Ma'"* Courte rf

)ur Highnes Couries of record, and have

^ilao uppon those letters patentes to be

1 Thomas Moore to his furtherance and

at our handcs. And notwithstanding,

and Drojjhcda, chalcnying by the - -

Chauncerie here, and ihe r

caused suche sevtrall injui

passed and adwaidfd, as

with his conieniaiiii

some of the to.vnes, as Dublin

u-hich prohibiicth thai transportation, a prii|)erlie in thei

chfvni due, as the staiuie apoyntctli uppcm those wares ; tlie

was cinpcched livyse, by arrest, for tlio

siandiny, rL-leased'hym. and seiuliii}^ fur the Mayour ami

Droyheda which emptaclicd liym, and the Shcrifff

custome, to
Thomas Moore

Whereof we having under-
of the Aldermen of

of Dublyn which lykcwise
meare arrested liyjn, lo tonif before us, did c:onimitt iheym to your Ma'"- castell
of Dublyn, where for a space ihey wcare deieyiied for their contempt So as we
judge, albeit ihey styl] ileave to the riiilit iif the st.ilute wherby they presume, as
that ihey may by the same ;been}; not repealed) cniitle ihem selves anci demaunde
the towncs custome. as dewe to be ]>aid unto thi-ym. as by the said Acte ys lymited
and reserved for cche ijuantitic of suthe prohiiiiied wares, notwithstanding tt^
lycense therefore to be (iraunled ; that yet iht-y will hensforth forbeare any further '
10 molest the said Thomas MiMire abowtes those cawses ; but meane to make
rather humble scwte to your Ma'i»- 10 have consideration of their petition and
tiaynie in this behalf to be exhibited, uppon which ihey mav knowe your Ma***-
direction and resolution. .And wheare, as your M.ijesiy Hrytetli, your Highneshath

Irish Linen Yarns.

been infourmed, the passing of your lyscnse of that qnantiiie of yame would
small/ prejudice the trafique used of that commodiiie ; for that we acknowledge yC
our dewties, for the trust your Ma'"- reposeih in us, to aasertayne your Ma'"^- of
our opynions, we must affyrme 10 your Ma''*- howe the yame sleyed within this
realme, ys not a thinge alonly commodyouse in many paries of this realme, whereby
a nomber of loomes have been sett on wourck synce thordynaunce of the said
statute, and' dyverse persons relieved iherby and put 10 labour in avoyding of
ydlenes ; but moost of all, the same florysheng in ih Englishe Pale, wherby
having of our selfes sondry lymes seen dyverse of those loomes and the good and
lardge size and workmanshipp of the lynnen clothe, of striped canvas, sackcloth,
and suche lyke of greate breadthes redy woven, not afore put in use, the same hath
offred good lykeiehood and hoope of good and greate plentie thereof, to arryse, of
commoditie of this common weale, ihroughe the contynuance of the same. And
yet can we not denye the abuse of some, which have and do attempt withowt
lycense, both to convey and otherwise also to steale owt of the realme, sondry
quantities of the said yame, to the disadvaunlage of the weale pubhque, and offence
of that your Highncs lawe : whereof many have been towched, and felt the smart
of the statute for suche transportation, by forfeyciing those goodes, and many of
Dublyn presently indicted for lyke matter, and ar to abide their justification.
Tbrotigh which meanes contynued (as we entend to looke narrowly thereunto) yt
ys lykely that hereafter theare will be both better obedience used, and also more
care and feare {we trust) taketi, as shoulde be, 10 avoyde the daunger of your
Ma""- lawes in this behalf provyded. And thus having humbly opened to your
Ma''*- the whole state of this matter, do leave the same to your moost graciouse
consideration, as may be thought fytt to your Highnes for the benefytt of your sub-
jectes here. In which cause, we have not ymparted of this our wryting to your
Highnes to eny of the subjecies of this land, otherwise then conferryng thereof
emongesi our selfes, which are here of your Ma''"- Privye Counsell.

From your Ma''"- Castell of Dublyn, the 27th of June,

Your Ma''«* moost humble and faithfull subje

(Signed) W. Fvtzwylliah.

Rohkrt Wkston,

AnAM Dublin.

To the Queene's most excellent Majesiye.

1572.

H. MlDEK.

Lucas Dillon.
Jo, Plunket.

Old Belfast.

Xor& Deput? an^ Council of 3relan5 to tbe iSlueen,
noa? 25, 1573.

jlCCORDING to your Majesty's letters
brought by me, your Treasurer, we are
presently in hand, and mean to proceed
for the manner of the government of
Conna}i;he by Commission of Oyer and
Terminer, wherein it hath pleased your
Majesty to appoint me your Treasurer
chief. For the accusations of the Earl of
Cianricarde and me, each against other. As those exhibited
by the Earl against me were examined and tried, so mine
against him are for a time laid aside, and the lets thereof
growing in such sort removed, as shall appear to your
Majesty by the copy herewith sent of our action at council
concerning that matter. By our last we signified unto your
Majesty that we had sent down commissioners into the
north to have speech with Tirlaghe Lenaghe, for some
peaceable ways if it might be. They concluded on an
abstinence until the 20th of this month, and now upon the
expiration thereof we have sent down again to renew it, if it
may be. But how unlikely it is shall appear to your Majesty
by the copies sent herewith of his own letters, and sundry
others from the Marshall, Justice Dowdall, and Dean of
Armaghe, and Collo McBryan, declaring how he draweth
and seeketh to draw force unto himself. O'donel having
accorded with him, Sir Bryan McPhelim being joined in full
confederacy with liim, Magennys having already compounded
with him, and Arte McDonnell with the Galloglaghes being
very like to compound with him also. But for the belter stay
of ftlagennis and Arte, we have given order to the Marshal for
taking of their pledges. And for the more animating of them
in duty, wherein for want of competent force they seem to
quail, as by the said letters may appear. But specially to
withstand the malice of the enemy, and likewise not without
great need to supply the wants of some parts of the borders
of the Pale towards Lowthe (where all our travail, care,
sundry commissions and often writings notwithstanding) how
unready they are, though next the danger, shall plainly

Lord Deputy and Council to the Queen, 1573. 15

appear to your Majesty, by the copy herewith sent of the
Sherif of that Counties letters, we have resolved to entertain
300 English footmen, whom we do and will put in pay, as
fast as we may gather them. And yet not without great
cause do we humbly renew our motion made by our last
letters, for a supply of men defalking of the whole so many,
as here we mean as we may to entertain. For, besides that
the North is apparant ill, there be many other places of whose
soundness we have good cause to doubt. And how Sir Brian
hath lately burnt a great part of the town of Knockfergus,
and what he more intendeth against it, and the abbaye, your
Majesty's storehouse there, shall appear unto you by the copy
herewith sent of that Major and his brethren's letters sent
unto us. God hath taken your Majesty's late chancellor
unto his mercy, and we, until your Majesty hath resolved
upon another to succeed him, which we humbly pray to be
with as convenient speed as may be, have appointed me the
Archbishop of Dublin to be the keeper of the Great Seal of
this your realm, &c. From your Majesty's Castle at Dublin,
the 25th of May, 1573.

W. FITZWILLIAM,
(and the sig7iatures of the Councillors,)

Inclosed in this dispatch is the following letter from
Marshal Bagenal : —

** My humble duty considered. I have received your
L. letters directed to Tirlaghe Lenaghe, and have accord-
ingly sent them unto him. I have also received the copy of
the Queen's Majesty's letters, and the copy of the peace, and
a letter to Capt. Mai bye, which I have sent unto him.
Tirlaghe Lenaghe, as I was advertised, was yesternight at
Benburbe with his power. I have also received your Lord-
ships' letters counseling me, the barron's sons, Magennis and
the Galloglasses, to entertain the late cashed soldiers for our
better defence, who say they are not able to entertain so
many as shall be able to defend them, nor will not agree to
any such charge, except they be compelled by your L. and
Council. I would have charged them with cess before this
time if I had not had commandment to the contrary from
your L. and council, but all would not have served against
his force ; O'donell, the Scots, and Sir Bryan McPhelim,
which be accounted to be the number of four thousand men.

Old Belfast.

I have charged myself with more men than my living and
revenues will stretch to keep, and have been at more charge
here than I think now well bestowed. And if I should be
abandoned from this place. Her Majesty in short time should
have no subject from Dundalke to Knockfergus, which I
think I shall be driven of force unto, as I think all princes
are bound to defend their subjects from rebels, and trust his
Majesty will so do. And where your Lordship wrote unto
me that you sent commandment to the Lords and gentlemen
of the borders to be in a readiness there. I hear of none
that be either at Ard or Dundalke, I have sent them
warning of Tirlagh's coming. There be none of Captain
Malby's men come unto me, for he saith he cannot well
spare them," (Irish Correspondence, State Paper Office.)

Bnsvucr to tbe !lLor& treasurer's ©bjcctlons,
3ul? 25, 1504.

\ HERE it seemeth good to your Lordship
that a portion of land shall be reserved out of
the ancient land belonging to the town of
Carickfargiis for the use of the garrison, and
another portion for the use of the Queen's
Castle. Our answer is that the same lands
have been belonging to tlie town time out of
mind, being never severed therefrom, nor any man able to
make title thereunto. And as touching provision for Her
Majesty's garrison, we are content that they shall have free
grazing in the summer, with hay and winter provision for
their horses and hackeneyes which they keep for Her
Majesty's service.

And for land to be laid to the Queen's Castle out of the
same, we do also answer that the Constable for the time
being shall have like allowance as before for the garrison ;
and he being also a freeman of the town by our Charter,
shall have over and besides the said grasing and hay, &c., as
large a portion of land as the best freeman or alderman of
the town shall have, yielding for his share such duties and

Answer to the Lord Treasurer's Objections, 1594. 17

charges as other townsmen do for the like proportion and
quantity.

We humbly beseech your Lordship to consider the
premises, and to weigh the pitiful and distressed estate of
that poor town ; the innumerable killings, burnings, spoils,
and stealths made upon them, with the often famine and
misery which they have sustained for the defence and safe
keeping of that Her Majesty's goole of the North : as also
the great poverty which now of late they are brought unto
by these late outrages, spoils, and stealths made upon them
by their evil neighbours, which have lands enough of Her
Majesty's lying near about us waste, by the space of 20 or 30
miles compass every way from our town lands, which in
regard of them are but a handful, and therefore very hard to
be taken from us.

We are further to inform your Honor, that we are at thegj^;^^/^*^
yearly charge of 5oli. ster. at the least, with the garrison, in
finding them houseroom, fire, bedding, besides other neces-
saries. And now since February last we have been at more
than looli. charge in fortifying the town for the present
defence of the same, and will cost us 2oli. ster. by the year
in repairing and maintaining the ditches and rampirs until
the wall shall be built

We do assure ourselves the entertainment which the
Constable hath of Her Majesty may well maintain the Castle
without seeking to take away for his own private use that
which is the relief of many a poor creature, and if he shall
allege the contrary we will undertake (if it shall stand with
your Lordships liking) that the town shall keep as many
warders, as sufficient men, and as well furnished, as are now
there, for half the pay he hath for the same. for hair the pay.

And as touching Wodborne, which is 20 Irish acres, we
desire to have the same at such rent as it is surveyed, viz.,
15s. ster., and yet the same to remain to the use of the
garrison, for that they cannot keep their horses and hackneyes
in any other place safe from the enemy, especially in time of
war, provided that in such troublesome times we may have
some relief thereof. We did upon the same consideration
give unto Mr. Eggerton loli. ster., that he should not hold
the same in severalty to himself, after he had procured a
grant thereof, whereunto he did agree, for that he perceived
how necessarily the same did lie for the safety of all our

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goods ; and the Constable hath, notwithstanding, as great
commodity and profit thereof as the whole town hath, and
for that part of the town'? land which lieth west from Wood-
borne to the Earl's meadow, the garrison and constable have
the whole grasing and commodity thereof as well for summer
as winter provision for their horses and hackneyes. The
said ten plough lands is no such great compass or circuit as
may perhaps seem to your Lordship, and we do now hold the
same in a manner with as great commodity as when the same
shall be alloted. For our chief purpose in seeking to have
the same laid out, is to the end we may entrench and ditch
it about, leaving some few narrow passages for the enemy to
come in, by which means we hope to save our goods, which
oftentimes heretofore we have lost, for that the land is not
enclosed.

We must acknowledge ourselves bound to your Lordship
for many favours, most humbly beseeching your Honor for
a good dispatch, and what good shall befal our town in these
their suits must of right be attributed to your Lordship, for
which they and their posterity shall to their uttermost for
ever rest thankful.

Our answer to the L. Treasurer's objections touching the
lands. (Irish Cori-csponcience, State Paper Office.)

petition of Hflcnts tor tbc ^own of (EarricMcraus,
25tb 3ul^, 1594.

To THE Right Hoshle. the Lord Burghlf.v, Loru High Treasurer
OF Englanii.

jOST humbly besceclieth your honorable Lordship, William
T Lymsey and Humfrey Johnson, agents for the town of
I Carrickfergus, to consider ihc substance of our demands,
I consisting in these two points following:— First, to have
1 granted all the ancient land and common belonging to the
I town, which have continued in the possession and inaunrance
I of the Corporation time oul of mind ; the same being com-
I mandedby Her Highness to Sir Henry Syddneytoallot and
I appoint, which yet remains undone by reason of his revoca-
tion, as in our petition is more at large expressed. The
like warrant we now crave to the Lord Deputy. Together also with the land
belonging to the Abbey of Woodborn, adjoining to the town, which we now hold
by concordalum from Her Highness, the same being surveyed at 20 Irish acres,
which we are content shall be chiefly to the use of the garrison there resident, so

Petition of Agents for Carrickfergus, 1594. 19

that in time of war we may have some relief thereof, for which we are content to
pay the yearly rent reserved to Her Highness, being 15s. sterling. Secondly, that
It wd. please Her Majesty to finish the walling of the (own, and make up the Peare,
as is specified in Her Highness's gracious letters patents to us granted, and now
in force ; whereupon we do yield and agree to pay yearly ^£40 rent to Her Majesty,
as in the said letters patents is mentioned. If your Honor did know the often
slaughters, burnings, preys, spoils, and stealths made upon us, it were most
lamentable, the which we could in particular lay down but for troubling your Lord-
ship. Apd now of late since March last, upon bruit of the Earl of Tirone's going
out, the country, taking that opportunity, did prey and spoil the most part of Her
Majesty's subjects in those parts, and the garrison being then called away by him
that had the command of them, the town left naked and open 10 the enemy. Our
Mayor then, with all the townsmen, were constrained to work all day and watch
every night for their own safety and defence of Her Majesty's town, which, being
walled, they might with some boldness have issued out and resisted the enemy,
and saved iheir goods, as oftentimes they have done. And the land being alloted,
they would have ditched and entrenched the same, leaving some few and narrow
passages to the enemy, whereby ihey should have been less able to do harm, and
with more advantage be encountered, where now the townsmen durst not issue out
for hazarding the town and their few goods in it. Right Honorable, if the great
extremities by famine and otherwise were thoroughly made known to Her Majesty,
your Honor, and the rest of her honourable Council, no doubt Her Highness
would think this too little, but would yield us much more than we now demand.
And where it is enformed your Lordship the unreasonableness of our suit in seek-
ing to take all from Her Majesty, as namely, the abbey or palace, albeit the
same is contained within Her Highness's letters patents, yet we never hitherto
made any penny profit thereof ; and if the granting of the same shall seem pre-
judicial to Her Majesty, we are ready (having authority from the town), upon the
dispatch of our suit, to surrender the same, and to yield to any other thing which
to your Honour shall seem reasonable. Our town, in regard of your fatherly care of
all Her Majesty's dominions and countries, did advise us especially both to acquaint
and depend upon your Honour in all causes touching their suits. Therefore we
humbly beseech your Lordship not to believe any suggestion against us, for that
we will infomi your Honor nothing but truth, which we will maintain with the loss
of our goods, liberties, and lives. Wherefore, if anything seem to your Lordship
to be unreasonable, we humbly crave to have the same delivered in particular,
which done, we doubt not but to satisfy your Lordship with reason. Thus craving
pardon, with our hearty prayer to Cod for your LoKlship's long -con tinned health
to the relief of poor suitors, We most humbly take leave.

Indorsed. The humble petition of Willm. Lymsey and Humfrey Johnson,
agents for the town of Carrickfergus, in Ireland.

note of tbe ffiountis of the Sown XanBs,
3ul? 25tb, 1504.

■T the west end of our ancient town standeth the Abbey of
\ Woodbome, which hath belonging unto it 20 Irish acres of
I land, from the which land unto Earle's Meddow we esteem
je a mile, which is as far as the town's land reachelh in
J length westward ; and from the sea-side, being south 10 the
I great mountain northward, about three-quarters of a mile.
1 At the north-east end of the loivn standeth a spytiel-

house, whereunto is belonging 4 or 5 Irish acres of land,
' from which land unto Copplande water is about some
(Quarter of a mile, which is as far as the town's land extendeth that way
in length. And from the seaside northward in breadth up to the hills,
upon which hills there is a Louche called Loughmourne, of a mile in
length northward, which runneth into the river of Copplande water ; and

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so westward from the Loughe above the hills there is tnoores, mosses,
and heathy, bad ground as far as ihe end of the great hil! called the
Knockowe, whereunto adjoineth the Earle's meadow, by the separation of a
river coming out of the end of thai hill, which doth part the town's land and the
Earle's meadow, upon which hills of moor and heathy ground we have, time out of
mind, had comen (sr'c) of Turbarye heath and pasture in the summer-time, whereby
our caitle in the heat of the day might be near ihe Lough for their refreshing.

The wall undertaken by Mr. Lackforde was 8 foot at the foundalion in
breadth, to be buili i6 foot high, and to be ai the height of the said i6 fool 6 foot
broad, and thereupon a vannor of 4 ft. high and 2 ft. broad, which in the full height
is 20 ft. The charge of every pearch of the same height and breadth mil stand in
the building thereof at the least 15'' ster. And there is yel unbuilt 90 pearches,
besides three towers and (wo gates, ivhich must be built 4 ft. higher than the rest,
with frestone for the gates, towers, and spikeholes ; as also 8 slancks of lime and
stone, which must be made without the wall to keep the ditches full of water, which
altogether will be above the number of 10 pearches. So the whole unbuilt is at the
least 100 perches, which, after the rate aforesaid, doth amount to i.soo'i ster.,
besides the charge of building up the keye or peare. {Irish Correspondence, Sliite
Fapf Office.)

Sir a. Cbicbcstcr an& 3slan& flDaoce, 1601-

'SLAND MAGEE was granted by Queen Elizabeth to
Walter Earl of Essex, who died of dysentery in Dublin, the
22nd of September, 1576. After his son Robert Earl of
Essex was beheaded on the 25th February, 1601, I find Sir
Arthur Chichester writing from Knockfergus, April 6th,
1601, the following words to Sir Robert Cecil : —

"Att my last beinge in Englande, I dealte with one

Sir a. Chichester and Island Magee, i6oi. 21

Charles Ogte, servaunte to the Earle of Essexe, for a peece of
land lyenge neere this towne, named the Ilande Magie, which was
land of the said Earles, and by him geven to his servaunte Ogle for
the terme of 21 yeeres, yt hath longe layn wast, and considering
the traysons of those gentlemen 1 am doubtfull to deale anie further
therein, and to bestowe anie charge upon hyt, unlesse I have some
assurance from her Majestic for possessinge thereof. It is a thing of
small valuer, if yt wyll please your honore to gett me the sead farme
thereof I wyll bulde some fortes and castles upon hit, and keepe yt from
annoyance of reables."

Of course, Essex being beheaded for treason his estates were con-
fiscated, and there was no use in Chichester dealing with Ogle or any
person else for them, when he might get a grant of them for nothing.
Though so early in the field, it does not appear that Chichester
obtained a grant of Island Magee until 1610. (Pinkerton MSS:)

letter from ^bomas Malher, close prisoner at tbc
flewr'p, Hufi. 22n&, 1601.

To the Rt. Hon. the Lorde Mouiitjoye, Lorde Deputie of Ireland.

Right Hon. —

lURE honor's pore petitioner, a prisoner till my
iruth have had her trial, which I trust in God will
not be long. Since, I understand, your Lordshipe
liaChe sente into Inglande aboute me, doth beg, for
" , sake whoe hathe fashioned us to his owne
lilitude and likencsse, that your honor will not
■ see me hunger for want of meanes. My goode
Lorde, I spcake this in all humilitie, for them I
sent to for my meanes feares by sending to supplie my wants
lest they be alsoe brought in troble for me ; that in the world's
eie I sceme hardly thought one, when, had 1 had a souldier's
harte, as 1 wanted not his forwarde minde, and not given
place unto effeminate thoughtes, forgettinge how I promised to
my God if it would please him to send his angell to conduct me
safe, and give me favor in the presence of Tcrone, I would not feare
to smite him, weare his garde about him, it had not bin so whith me
as it is ; and to see Code's mercie towardes me that daye, he had no
garde to speak on, neither had he on a quilted coatc, but only a blacke
freese gerkin, which, being unbuttoned, I might see his naked brest.
I havinge my armes redelivered me by his own commandement, he
tooke me twice in that short time I was with him by the hande, say-
inge I was wclcom to him, and toulde me by those wordes I was the
fortunatest man that ever came unto him, for had not my horsemen
bin the honester, sayde he, they would have sore wounded thee, but

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had my footmen met thee, thou hadest not never come alive before me.
Thus before and after I was most mithily preserved by the Lorde, and
persuade myselfe it is to some good end, wherefore his name be
praysed whose mercie endureth for ever. And, my goode Lorde,
when I am found an honest man towards my country, I will shew
myselfe a true servant to your honor, in giving your Lordshipe to
know what I have heard and seen in my travells ; meanwhile, I will
laye it up in my harte till I may have accesse unto your Lordship,
Yet earnestly beseeching your honor, for Code's sake, to shake ofTe by
little and liltel the hard conscatc your Lordship with good reason
hath of me, for God, that knows my hart, knows it is free of that
maculated spott. I am a foole to speake thus much ; but, alas ! hath
not the sillie assc, that is beaten for his stumblinge, sense to know in
what he made his Lorde a faulte. A littel beare with me, goode my
Lorde, for 1 have wrotte this in my teares, and whatsoever I have
sayed or done, hereafter, God wilHnge, I will give a reason for it, but
it will seem foolish for a time. Thus, fearinge to overlaye your honor's
patience with copiousness of words, I will surceasse, committinge your
honor to the safe kecpinge of the Allmi<^htie, that his stronge arme
may be ever with your good Lordship to yonr lives end. From the
prison of the Newry, Sattcrday, the xxijth of August, 1601.

•^.»ACi .^-^-c--^'-

Snquisition tahca at Hr&quin, 4tb 3ul^, ie05.

N indented Inquisition taken at the town
of Ardwhy in the County of Down, on the
fourth day of July, & in the third year of
our most illustrious prince & lord James,
by the grace of God, King of England,
Scotland, France & Ireland, & of Scotland
the thirty-eighth, before William Parsons
Esq. surveyor general ol our said lord the King of his
Kingdom of Ireland, Robert Barnewall Esq, & Lawrence
Masterson Esq. by virtue of a commission of our
said lord the King under his great seal of his Kingdom
of Ireland directed to the same William, Robert, Lawrence
& others by the oath of honest and lawful mea of the
county aforesaid whose names ensue.

John White Lord of the Dufferin Esq. Christ. Russell
of Bright Esq. James Dowdall of Strangford, Gent. George
Russell of Rathmullen Gent. John Russell of Killough,
Gent, James Stackpoole of Ardglass, Gent. Simon Jordan of
Ardglass, Gent. Robert Sword alias Crooley of Ballidoneli,
Gent William Meriman of Ballineborgash. Gent. Sillernow
Croney of Scrow, Gent. Patrick Russell of St. John's Point,
Gent. Robert Hadsor of Cullevaile, Gent. Owen McRorie of
Down, Gent. Simkin FitzWitliams of Grange, Gent. &
Redmond Savage of Saul, Gent. After reciting the lands &
boundaries of Clandeboy, Kilultagh &c. the Jurors aforesaid
say further on their oaths that the said late queen Elizabeth

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being seized of all & singular the premises as above, by her
Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster in England the
sixteenth November, in the thirteenth year of her reign
according to the intention, effect, & covenants of certain
indentures between the said lady the Queen on the one part,
& Thomas Smith Knight, & Thomas Smith son of the afore-
said Thomas, then one of the pensioners of the said late
Queen, within the said Kingdom of Ireland, of the other
part, passed under the Great Seal of England, bearing date
the fifth day of October in the thirteenth year of her reign
gave & granted, among other things, all & singular the
above recited premises, with their appurtenances by the
names in the said Letters Patent mentioned & specified
under certain conventions & provisions in the said Letters
Patent, the tenor of which follows in these words.

Eranelation of Smitbs (Brant

IlIZABETH, bv the Grace of God, Queen of England,
" ince, & Ireland, Defender of ihe Failh &c. TO ALL
whom these our present letters shall come greeting,
I KNOW that we of our special grace of God, & of certain
I knowledge & our mere notion, & in consideration of certain
I covenants & articles of agreement on the part of our
I well beloved & faithful counsellors Thomas Smith Knight,
& Thomas Smith son of the foresaid Thomas Smith
Knight, one of our pensioners within our Kingdom of
Ireland their heirs & assigns to be fulfilled executed as specified and declared
in certain indentures executed between us on the one part &. the aforesaid
Thomas Smith Knight & Thomas Smith his son on the other part, bearing date
the fifth day of October in the thirteenth year of our reign We have given &
granted & by these presents for us our heirs & successors we give & grant to
the aforesaid Thomas -Smith Knight & Thomas Smith his son all & singular
the manors lordships castles monasteries abbies priories chanteries free-chapels
rectories messuages houses edifices lands tenements meadows pastures woods
waste lands forests chases parks warrens lakes waters pools fish-ponds
moors marshes wastes furze briars quarries mines rents

Translation of Smith's Grant. 25

advowsons of churches tithes wards marriages reliefs escheats commodities
emoluments & hereditaments of ours wnatsoever with all & singular
their appurtenances in the great Ardes the lesser Ardes Claneybuy
towards the south from the Castles called Castle Belfast, Castle Mowbray,
and Castle Toome from the late Monastery or Priorj' of Masserine in
Clandeboy parcel of our county of Ultonia or Ulster withm our Kingdom of
Ireland, And the aforesaid Castle of Belfast Castle Moubray and Castle Toome
with their appurtenances And all that Monastery or Priory of Masserine with the
appurtenances in Clandeboye aforesaid Likewise all & singular other manors,
lordships, castles, messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, woods, moors,
marshes, rents, services, advowsons of churches, tithes, natives male and female, &
all others our profits, commodities, emoluments, & hereditaments whatsoever
lyeing and being in Clandeboye, Tirone & other places continuously adjacent in
our county of Ulster aforesaid which the said Thomas Smith Knight or Thomas
Smith his son or their heirs or assigns can obtain possess or inhabit against the
Irish, before the twenty-eighth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord
one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, all mines or quarries of gold silver
& copper being only reserved & excepted to us our heirs & successors TO
HAVE HOLD & ENJOY all & singular the aforesaid manors, lordships, castles,
monasteries, abbies, priories, messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures,
woods, moors, marshes, free warrens, chases, forests, lakes, waters, pools, fishings,
furze, briars, quarries, mines, advowsons of churches, tithes, rents, reversions,
services, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats. And all & singular the premises with
all & singular the appurtenances (except as before excepted) to the aforesaid
Thomas Smith Knight & Thomas Smith his son and the heirs of the body of
that Thomas Smith the son lawfully begotten And in defect of such issue to the
right heirs of the said Thomas Smith Knight for ever. TO HOLD of us our heirs
& successors as of our Castle of Knockfergus by the service of one Knight's fee
Rendering annually to us our heirs & successors after the feast of St. Michael
the Archangel which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred &
seventy-six for every carucate of the said land called in English a plow land
containing one hundred & twenty acres of land of the measure in the said
Indentures specified, twenty shillings of lawful money of Ireland at the feast of
the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary &. the feast of St. Michael by equal
portions in our exchequer of Ireland, to be collected by our Sheriff there & to be
annually paid by him at the hands of the Treasurer of our foresaid exchequer of
Ireland into the hands of the receiver of our said exchequer there, the first
payment thereof beginning at the feast of St. Michael which will be in the year of
our Lord one thousand five hundred & seventy-six AND FURTHER of our
more abundant special favour, we will grant for us our heirs and successors that
the said Thomas Smith Knight & Thomas Smith his son their heirs & assigns
tenants & residents shall be quiet & exonerated from all exactions called coyne &
livery & from all other such like cesses whatsoever now used or which hereafter
may be used or imposed within our foresaid Kingdom of Ireland during the term
of seven years after the date of these presents AND FURTHER we have given
& granted & by these presents we give & grant for us our heirs & successors to
the aforesaid Thomas Smith Knight & Thomas Smith his son & their heirs court
baron, leet & view of frank-pledge, assize of bread, wine & beer in all & singular
the premises & in every parcel thereof AND FURTHER of our more abundant
special grace for us our heirs & successors we give & grant to the aforesaid
Thomas Smith the father & Thomas Smith the son, their heirs & assigns full
license power & authority to aHenate give & grant all & singular the premises
to be held of the said Thomas Smith the father & Thomas Smith & their heirs
for such & such like rents & services as to the said Thomas & Thomas & their
heirs may be pleasing, provided however that such alienations or grants or the
services or tenures to be thereupon reserved or any of them be not contrary to any
condition declared or expressed in the Indentures aforesaid PROVIDED always
that if the aforesaid Thomas Smith the father Thomas Smith the son or their heirs
shall not obtain possess & divide all & singular the premises according to the true
Si right intention covenants & agreements in the said Indenture specified, that

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then those our Letters Patent as far forth as all & singular the premises thus
not obtained possessed & divided shall be void & of no strength in law. And
nevertheless as to the residue of the premises they shall remain firm & stable in
their own strength, vigour, and effect. PROVIDED also further that if the
aforesaid Thomas Smith the father, & Thomas Smith the son, & their heirs, shall
not fulfill all & singular the covenants & agreements in said Indentures specified
on the part of them or either of them to be further fulfilled that thenceforth these
our Letters Patent shall be void & of no effect in law. And that thenceforth it
shall be lawful for us our heirs & successors to re enter into all & singular the
premises & to possess, enjoy, & hold the same in our former rights, anything in
these Letters Patent or in the Indenture aforesaid contained to the contrary
notwithstanding. In testimony of which fact we have made these our Letters
Patent. Witness myself at Westminster the sixteenth day of November in the
thirteenth year of our reign 1571.

appurtenances of Castle i
divm failhrul & good sen:]
all the lands tfxccpl thesis

ii do as proposed liy them, ihe Queen panted the manor and
igh 10 one t^'on McNc-.1l Oge O Nenle. Knight in consideration oT
1 by Icucrs pnlcnt dated Dublin jolh March in 29 year of her reifin
longing to ihe bishon n( Down, with remainder to Hugh O Neale
.'on. Con died at Castle Reogh 7 April 15B9, without heir. Hugh

ea]e MaslhoonniT levied CMsSc. aftcrConn. fPinierlon MSS.J

(Ftc-iim:lio/tl,,l

Lifi." Lsidon, /ftlS)

Timber in Ulster, 1608.

titmber in TUIster.

CHICHESTER TO SALISBURY, ai OCT. i

j AM well acquainted with all partes of Ulster,
in the Countie of Dunnagall I am sure ther
is none at all, neither is ther anie in the
countie of Colerayne both which counties lye
upon the sea. But ther is good store
in Glancomkeyne, Kylletra, & Braselowe
w"* counties lye upon the loagh knowne by
the name of loagh Eagh w** loagh is navigable from each syde
& end all over, the nearest place to the sea from thence is
Knockfergus w'' is 12 good myles overland, but the river of
the Bann runns from the loagh by the Castle of Toome to the
Castle & abbaye of Colerayne wher it ebbs & Hows from the
sea. This passage by water is about thirtie myles (rather more
than lesse) in w*" there are six or seven lepps 8c shotts, besydes
this the harbore is so bard w'*' sholles that no shipp of buthen
can com in at anie tyme, which togeather with hit lyenge too
farre to the North makes me to conceive lyttle good is to be
expected by that passadge, if anie be it must be made by
carrienge thereof over land from the loagh syde to Knock-
fergus w"* is a goodly harbore, & accessable, & a safe rode all
weathers, but farre off to make a retounie for England, about
Knockfergus there are no woods neere than Belfast w'^ is
eight myles off but lyenge upon the river w'' is portable, I
have ther some wooken fsic) trees but so crooked & shrofed
that no man fells them for tymber either for pipestaves or other
use of buyldinge, but it maye be they wyll serve for some use
for shippinge, such as they are, & all that is neere unto it shall
be reserved untyll y Iop appoints some man to see it, & I wys
nothing more than that it maye prove for the use yor Iop
would have it, Kylultagh lyes on the one syde upon loage
Eagh & on the other syde upon the river of the lagan
vi^ is the river that runes by Belfast to Knockfergus.
in that countrie are good tymber trees, but the countrie
is but small, & therfore the quantitie of tymber can
not be great, this belonges to Sir Foulke Conwaye & as I

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conceive a small charge wyll dense that river (& so force it to
rune togeather where it is shallowe) as to make it portable of
tymbers of anie syce ther are other woods in Fermanagh but
they are of no great quantitie as I am informed. ( Pinkerton MSS.)

Z\iZ plantation of "Ullstcr. Xor& H)eput? Cbicbcster
to Xor& Salisbury, 3rb ©ctober, 1610.

lOR the instrumerites of the Plantation, I
\ meane the Brittysh Undertakers, those from
England are for the most part plaine countrie
I gentlemen, who maye promise much, but
I ijeve unto us small assurance or hope of
performinge what to a worke of such
moment doth appertaine. If they have monie they keepe
it cloase, for hitherto they have disbursed but lyttle,
and if I maye judge by the utter apparance, I conceive
that the least trouble or alteration of the tymes here
wyll scare most of them from us. It is sayd by them-
selves, that since the denomination of the parties att fyrst
by the Lords that were Undertakers, some have exchaunged
their portions, and others solde them outright. In one
precynct of those that have appeared, two are Churchmen
and one a youth of some i8 or 19 yeares olde, whose names
I have noted in the sedule sent by Sir Olever Lambert.

The Plantation of Ulster, i6io. 29

The Scottysh came with greater part and better accom-
panied and attended ; but it maye be >vith lesse monie in
their purses ; for some of the princypall of them upon their
first entrance into their precynctes were forthwith in hand

,d Beliiitl-o.nighlicaBiucrof ln:la«a i^id^cnu, nmrj-Lo Drpun---//A.r
Cn^lom £ujm'if tr ^uiti ihu .-f rHi- Finy ehuijjtii m f. S' it E.-\X .11.

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with the natives to supply their wantes, or att least their
expenceis, and in recompence thereof do promise to gett
lycense from His Ma''*- that they maye remayne upon their
lands as tennantes unto them ; which is so pleasinge to that
people that they wyll strayne themselves to the uttermost to
gratifie them ; for they are content to become tennantes to
anie man, rather than be removed from the place of 'their
byrth and education, hopinge, as I conceive, att one tyme'or

30 Old Belfast.

other to finde an opportunitie to cutt their landlords' throtes ;
for sure I am they hate the Scottyshe deadly, and out of their
malice towards them they beginne to affect the Englysh better
than they have byne accustomed.

They sell awaye both corne and cattle, and when they are
demanded why they do so, their aunswer is that they know
not what else to do with them, nor to what place to carie
them, the portion of land assigned to each of them beinge too
lytde to receive and feede the goods he hath for his owne
perticulare.

They seeke by all meanes to arme themselves, and have
undoubtedly some peecies in store, and more pikes, and
therofcan make more dayly ; but powder and lead is scarse
with them. I wyll do my best to prevent their revolte, but
I greatly doubt yt, for they are infinitly discontented. . .
We are now all of us become buylders and planters here,
and not wasters and destroyers as in our younger yeares, and
would gladly rest in quiett if our yll neighbours wyll permitt
us ; and that makes us the more sudious to prevent their
revolt, and to settle peace and quietnes amonge them.

H9Si3es beI6 in TUleter H.2). iei5.

ANTRYM.

CENER.AL Session w.is heW at the Cnstte of Carrickfergus on
the i6lh of March. 12 James L (1615), before Gerard Lather, Esq.,
one of the Jud),'es of the Common Pleas, and John Beare, Esq.,
Ser^eant-at-Law, under a Commission dated the 15th February in
'i-e same year, and an Inquisition taken before the following Grand

John Plunkett, James Russell.

William Boyde, Robert Hamell,

Hugh Magee, Saunders Edmonston,

James Blare, John M'Colloe,

Andrew Holme, (;illduffM'Cawley,

Patrick Woods, Korie O'Morrey,

Archiebald l3oyde, Neil m'brian O'Neile.

William Stevenson,
Who say thai Murtagh O'Hamyll, of Stenement, yeoman, on the 2nd January, 1614,
at Whlteabby, stole 3 cows worth 20s. each, the properly of Michael Newbv
gentleman. Guilty. To be executed. ■"

That Ever McBrehon, of the Roote, yeoman, on the 30th Oclr., 1614, at Strad-
ballythomas. stole a bridle [unum frenium] worth 5s., the property of Edward
Steward. Guilty. To be executed.

Assizes held in Ulster a.d. 1615.

That Brian O'Cribben, of Edendufcarricke, yeoman, on the 37th Nov., 1614,
there committed an assault upon EUse ny Lagan, the widow of William Toole, a
faithful subject, and with "a cudgill'' worth one halfpenny which he had in his right
hand he struck her in the front of the head, giving her a mortal wound of 4 inches
in length and one inch deep, of which she languished until the last day of the same
month, when she died. Guilty. Says he is a Clerk. He is therefore, as is shewn
in a former case, branded in the left hand and delivered to the Ordinary.

That Donald O'Mulchallen, of Killelaghe, yeoman, on the 1st April, 1614, at
Bellfaste, stole "one nedge of Iron" worth zs., a mantle (unum pallium anglicanum)
worth 6s., and " a chiiell" worth 8d., the property of James Hutton, of Bellfaste.
Guilty. To be executed.

That Laghlin McEdmund O'Carr, of Ballenure, yeoman, on the izth January,
1614, at "le Parke," stole "a sacke" worth 4S., "a bridle" worth is. 6d., and "a
pillyn" worth 2s., the property of Brian Mcdudarragh Magill, of the Parke.
Acquitted.

That Richy Bell, of Carrickfergus, yeoman, on the 4th February, 1614, at Sirad-
ballythomas, stole a black horse worth £i, the property of a person unknown.
Guilty. To be executed.

That Firlagh McCan and Conchor McGraudy, of Enishelaghlyn, yeomen, on
the I4ih Deer., 1614, at Enselaghlin, between the hour of 11 and 13 at night,
entered the mansion house of William Helton (or Belion), a true and faithful sub-
ject, with the intent of committing a burglary. Guilty. To be executed.

That Donald Magee, of Edendufcarick, yeoman, on the 7th February, 1614,
at Masserine, stole a goose worth ( } pence belonging to a person unknown.
Guilty. That he be taken back to prison and his fetters taken off of him, and that
he be then brought to the town of Masserine and there whipi around the market
and the d h reo m p ea m

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Redbaie, stole a chestnut horse, a brown horse
the property of Owen mcRobart. Acquitted.

That Cormuck O'Neale, of the Fues, ye
Cloghardury, stole a cow worth 20s., the property of Master Cambell, of the &

Elace ; And that Gilbert mcLawry, of Aghnebera^he, yeoman, relieved him, and
ought the cow from him.

That Jenken McQuyllin, of Moybluske, yeoman, on the nth Deer., i6t4, at
Ungalle, stole a black cow worth 30s., belonging to Edward Steward. ■ Guilty.
Says he is a Clerk, whereupon Robert Openshawe, the Itishop's minister of that
.place, claims him, and being burnt in the left hand, he is delivered to the Ordinary.

Old Belfast.

That Hu^h oge and CaJiir O'Mullan, of Megerilehan, yeomen, on the loth
April, 1614, at Conyre, stole a kettle worth 10s., and "foure yeards of clothe"
worth 40s., the property of Brian O'Cahan, of Conyr; and that Neale mcGille-
cholem, of Megerylehan, yeoman, aided him. No iinding.

That Denis alias Donat Timpany and Owen O'Carr, of Ilandmagie, yeomen, on
the 24th Deer., 1614, at VVhitheade, stole 4 oxen and 4 cows worth :os. each, the

Eroperty of Thomas Bashford, of Carrickfergus ; and that he was reheved, &c., by
ionaldO'Carr,of the Cave, yeoman, on the 27th of December following. No finding.
That Rory Carragh O'Lawry, of Lissnegarvagh, yeoman, on the 10th July,
1614, between 11 and 12 at night, entered the mansion house of John Yeatts to
commit burglar}-. Acquitted,

That James O'Hamyll, of Tulle nscros, yeoman, on the last day of Septr., 1614,
at Bailee ha ckiner. stole a brown and a yellow cow worth 20s. each, belonging to
Thomas Graison, and was abetted by Donat oge O'Hamnell No finding.

That Murtagh and Donogh O'.Mulchallen, of Ballevickechone, Co. Tyrone,
yeomen, on the ist of April, i6r4, at Conure, Co, Antrym, stole i cows worth 20s,
each, the property of Thomas Meltunus, and were relieved, &c., by Hugh
O'Mulchallen, of EdendufTecarick, yeoman, on the 4th of April following.

That[ ] O'Mollan, of Edenduffecarick, yeoman, on the 2;th [ J, 1614,

at Largie, stole 2 [ ] worth 30s, each, the property of Tibott Mc[ ]

McQuyllyn, and was abetted by J.imes [ ] Neefan, of Gregrebban, yeoman,

and Neale mcGillehy [ ], ai NIogheriligan, No finding.

FERMANAGH.

An Inquisition taken at EniskiUin before Sir John Blenerhasset, Knight,
one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and Sir Robert Oglethorpe, Knight, the
second Baron of the same Court, on the 8th of March, 12 James I., under a
Commission dated the i6ih of February in the same year, upon the oaths of the
following Grand Jury : —

Launcelot Carlton, of Enistlaie, \ ■

Thomas Crayton, of Knockneny,

Esquires,

Assizes held in Ulster a.d. 1615. 33

John Stokes, of Mountsedborrow,
Alexander Patteson, of Tooragh, C /- «.i
Thomas Cranston, of the same, '^ <^entlemen,

Gabriel Cunningham, of Cartnell,

John Ogle, of Maglas,
TTiomas King, of Magheriboy, f ^

William Atkenson, of the same, ^ Veomen,
William Penant, of Knockneny,

Symon Presly, of Mountcalverte,
James Belfard, of Lisnaskeagh,
Walter Notly, of Lurg,
James Summerwell, of Turagh,
John Smythe, of Lisnaragh,

Gentlemen,

Who say that Donnogh McArdell, of Dervick, yeoman, on the last day of
March, 1612, stole 5s. 3d. cash in a purse (in quadam crumena)^ a pair of shoes
worth 6d., and a coat (unam tunicam) worth 3s., the property of Patrick O'Goen,
and a pair of "trusses" (unum parum femoralium) worth 2s., the property of Art
McRolly. Guilty. He says he is a Clerk, whereupon John Barber, the minister
of George, Bishop of " Cloher," claims him, and being branded in the left hand, he
is delivered to the Ordinary.

That Tirlagh Mclgerre, of Collpaghie, yeoman, on the 20th Novr., 1614, at
Drommacklaras, stole a brown cow worth 20s., the property of Rorie O'Managhane.
Acquitted.

That Hugh McPhillip and Hugh McManus, of Latryme ; Donnell M*Hugh,
McGilpatricke Magwyre, and Gilleduffe McMaghone, of Coole, yeomen, on the
24th Nov., 1 614, at Aghlogherie, stole 2 horses worth 30s. each, and 5 cows each
worth 20s., belonging to Robert Mongomerie, gentleman. Acquitted.

That Collo McArt oge McMaghowne, of Magherrony, yeoman, on the last day
of May, 161 2, at Clonkellie, stole 2 mares worth 30s. each, and a horse worth 20s.,
the property of James Gortagh Magwyre. He pleads a pardon, as appears by a
ticket (per ticketam) under the hand of Sir Edward Blany, Knight, the which
pardon is dated the 13th Nov., 161 3, and is allowed.

That Cochonnaght M*Keon, of Colrane, Co. Londonderrie, yeoman, on the
4th Novr , 1610, at (Colfane) Co. Fermanagh, stole 30s. in money, and a sword
worth 3s^ belonging to John Harte, and **two shurts," worth 2s. 6d. each, the pro-
perty of Teige O'Mady. No finding.

That Phealem McPhillip and Shane boy McQuine McMahowne, of Latryme,
yeomen, on the 24th Novr., 1614, at Aghlogherne, stole 2 horses worth 30s. each,
and 5 cows each worth 20s., the property of Robert Moungomerie, gentleman.
No finding.

That Cormock mcRedmond Moyle Magwyre, of [Raiskilly], yeoman, on the
26th Octr., 1614, at Lattkerie, " in quendam Evelin ny Magwyre de Coole, spinster,
insultum fecit "et contra voluntatem suam felonice rapuit ac camaliler cognovit."
No finding.

That Tirlagh and Patrick McHugh, of Aghlony, yeomen, on the 20th Nov.,
1602, at Bellaghbiane, insulted Thomas mcCollo McShane Magwyre with a sword,
worth 2s., which they held in their right hands, giving him a mortal wound in the
right breast (dextro pectore) of 3 inches long and 5 inches deep, and many other
wounds, of which he instantly died. No finding.

That Redmund mcEneastall and Hugh Modderrie Magwyre, of Aghlorchie,
and Owen McEurie, of Dronaghe, and Coll Magw>Te, of Coole, yeomen, on the
20th of Novr., 16 1 2, at Aghalaghane, stole 8 cowhides worth 5s. each, the property
of Richard Lighterfoote, gentleman. No finding.

That Con Roe O'Connelly, of Mullagheglasse, yeoman, on the 20th Novr.,
1614, at Dromeforde, stole a brown cow worth ^3, the property of Edward
Sibthorpe, gentleman, and was aided on the last day of the same month by
Cnogher mcCafTorrie and Neile O'Mullegan, of Mullaghglasse. No finding.

Old Belfast.

gentlemen,

DONEGALL,

An Inquisition taken at Lifford before the same Judges, and by virtue of the
same Commission, on the 15th of March, 12 James L, by the oaths of the following
Grand Jury : —

John Kuningham, of Newton, Esq.
William Hamelton, of Lougheske,
Rowland Congall, of Coolobegg,
Andrew Kuningham, of Collomatreny,
Edward Cathrell, of Fyneforde,
Daniel Callchoo, of Corcagh,
David Paine, of Glanefyne,
Arthur Terrie, of the same,

iohn Fleming, of Lifford,
^atrick Rooney, of Tirrewe,
Tirlagh Ballagh Boyle, of Boyla,
Thomas Symons, of Donegall,
Christopher Weste, of Lifford,
Francis Edmons, of Tirrewe,
Roger Hancocke, of Enishowen,

Who say that Margery Harison, of Lifford, spinster, on the 9th of January, 1614,
at'Congane, stole 50s. in a purse belonging to Robert Carttwright. Guilty. To
be executed.

That Robert Woodes, of Eneskill, clerk^ on the last day of September, 1614,
at Tullaghmoore, insulted Sawe ny Boyle, spinster, and with a stick which he held
in his right hand he gave her divers wounds and " bruses " in the head and belly,
of which she languished until the 28th of Novr. following, when she died. Not
guilty.

DAipe-cofuimcme^

ARMS OF LONDONDERRY*

LONDONDERRIE.

An Inquisition taken at Londonderrie before the same Judges, and under the
same Commission, on the 21st of March, 12 James I., by the oath of the following
Grand Jury : —

Baptist Johns, of Salterston, ) ^

Manus O'Cane, of Lysnebehoone, \ esquires.

William Nesbett, of the parish of Tomlefenlecane,

Morries O'Cane, of the parish of Donboe,

Gorry mcShane, of Ballyaghery,

John Rosse, of Rathbride,

Gawen Rosse, of Fakerins,

Lawrence Atkins, of the parish of Faghenvayle,

William Abrehall, of Salterston,

*■ gentlemen,

Assizes held in Ulster a.d. 1615. 35

Nathaniell Carington, of Mollench, i

Toole mcVagh, of Magherifelie, I

John Cooke, of Lemevaddie, 1 „-_,|.„-_

Simon Berford. of Bamfelled, f geniiemen,

William Harison, of Magherae,

William Green, of the parish of Enisteede, )

"Who say that Donell Ogc McDoncll Boy O'Nealc, of the parish of Magharra,
yeoman, on the loth Deer., i6i"4, waged open war, and on the loth of January
in the same year was supported, ic, by CooU mcShane boy O'Neile and James

Carragh O'Neale, of Magharra, and Neile O'Gribben, of Moyacole, yeomen.
Said Coollo and James are found guilty and adjudged to death, " ac interiora et
membra secreta," &c., as in former cases.

That Donell oge mcDonell boy, of Magharra, yeoman, on the aoth Deer.,
1613, waged war, and was relieved by Artt oge mcffelome mcTlrlagh O'Neale. The
said Art is found guilty, and the sentence is the same as in the lastly above-
mentioned case.

That Neale CDevelin, of Killoghterr, yeoman, on the 20th Novr., 1614, at
Killciagh, stole 15 "swyne" worth zs. each, the property of Teige O'Hagane,
gentleman. Guilty. To be executed.

That Donell oge mcDonell Boy, of Magharra, yeoman [and another whose
name is defaced], Patrick O'Molleave, of the same, yeoman, Rorie [ 1, and

many other associates, on the loth Deer., 1613, levied open war [the remainder of
the entry cannot be decyphered].

That Richard White, of Maghera, with a skeine worth 2d. which he had in
his right hand, gave a mortal wound to Hugh Roe O'Swyne of 3 inches long and 4
inches deep under the right arm, of which he instantly died. Guilty. To be
executed, " et membra secreta," &c, as in former cases.

Old Belfast.

That Thomas Coxe, of Caman, gentleman, on the ist August, 1614, at Bally-
rassan, stole 24 " sake samons " worth 4d. each, " one pairc of sheets " worth 5s.,
"a caddowe" of a black colour worth 3s., and a hammer worth 6d., the property
of John Rosse. Guilty. Says he is a clerk, and thereupon Edward Bomker, the
minister of John, Bishop of Deny, having claimed him, he is branded in the left
hand and delivered to the Ordinary.

AN ANCIENT IRISH SCIAN.

That Donell oge mcDonell boy O'Neale, of Maghara, yeoman, on the last day
of Novr., 1614, levied war, and was relieved, &c., on the loth Deer, following, at
Dondonell, by James McFardaragh and Rorie oge O'Brollaghane, of (Tamlaght),
yeomen. The said James and Rorie are found guilty, and are adjudged to death,
" ct membra secreta," &c., as in former cases.

That Art 0*Hennery, of Monegrange, yeoman, on the 2nd January, 1614, stole
3>i hides of tanned leather, each worth 4s., the property of William Hoarde, a
tanner. Acquitted.

That James McFerrdorragh O'Neale, of Magheragh, yeoman, on the 22nd
August, 1614, insulted Hugh Roe O'Quine, and with a skeane worth 6d. gave him
a mortal wound in the back of 2 inches broad and 4 inches deep, and another
mortal wound in the back of 2 inches broad and 5 inches deep, of which he
languished at Kilcrenaghan until the 28th of the same month, and then died ; and
that the murderer was abetted, &c., by Rorie oge O'Brillaghan, of Magheragh, who
was present at the time. The said James is found guilty, and adjudged to death,
" et membra secreta,*' &c., as in former cases. Rorie is acquitted.

That James mcFerdorragh O'Neale, of Killcrannaghane, yeoman, on the last
day of Deer., 1614, gave Neale O'Doyle, clcrk^ with a sword worth 2s., a mortal
wound in the back of 4 inches broad and 5 inches deep, and divers other wounds
in divers other places, of which he then and there died, (juilty. To be executed,
" ct membra secreta," as in similar cases.

That Toole O'Mulchreene, Connor O'Mulchreene, and Donell oge mcDonell
boy, of Desertmartin, yeomen, on the 20th Deer., 161 4, stole a chestnut-coloured
mare and a she colt worth £fo^ a grey mare worth £^^ "a nagg" of a grey colour
worth 40s., the property of Thomas Foster, gentleman, and a black-coloured
gelding worth ;^4, the property of Thomas Thursoy, gentleman. Guilty. To be
executed.

That Calc O'Devin, of Clondermott, yeoman, one of the sherifTs bailiffs, on
the 20th Feby., 1614, forceably on the King's highway near the town of Comber,
insulted Shane M*Lincie, yeoman, and took from him two barrels of beare make
worth 8s. No verdict.

/•DOn-seAnAiiiii \

ARMS OF DUNCAN NON.

TYRONE.

An Inquisition taken at Dungannon, before the same Judges, and under the
same Commission, on the 30th of March, 12 James 1., by the oaths of the following
Grand Jury : —

Robert Stewarde, of Donnaghenrye, Esq.,

Assizes held in Ulster a.d. 1615. 37

James Callvill, of Srabane,
William Stewarde, of Crewe,

Robert Orack, ) ofthpc;am-

Gilbert Kenedy, } ot the sam.,

Robert Edmonston, of Killaman,

Charles Brookes, of Dromore,

Francis Clerk )

John Webb, ' 1 of the same, J^ gentlemen,

Robert Cootes, of Disertcreagh,
William Carmichell, of the same,
Conn boy mcDonellO'Neale, of Dromore,
Brian Crosse O'Neale, of the same
Arthur Greames, of Ergill,
Owin Roe O'Qwyne, of Dromore,

Who say that Dermott oge McDonn, of Agher, yeoman, on the 20th Nov., 1614,
there stole "a Caddowe" worth 8s., the property of Katherine ny Brien, spinster.
No verdict. Pardoned.

That William Allett and Jocky Tallen, alias Armestronge, of Galnegore,
yeomen, on the loth Deer., 16 14, there stole 8 sheep, each worth 3s., the property
of Patrick McRory. Wm. Allett is found guilty, and says he is a clerk, whereupon
John Moony, the minister of Christopher, Archbishop of Armagh, appears, and
Allett being branded in the left hand is delivered to him. Pardoned.

That Hobbie Allett, of Dongannon, yeoman, on the 20th Octr., 16 14, at Omye,
stole 2 horses, each worth ^£3, belonging to James McGillsenan, a mare worth 40s.,
the property of Brien O'Ferrenan, and a horse worth 40s., the property of David
Smyth. Guilty. To be executed.

That Robert Erwin, of Cregill, yeoman, on the loth Novr., 1613, at Clonha,
stole 2 horses, each worth 40s., the property of Sorragh ny Neale, widow. Guilty.
As a clerk, prays the benefit of clergy, and thereupon he is branded in the left
hand and delivered to the above named John Mooney.

That Hugh McV^aldon, of Largy, yeoman, on the 24th of December, 1614, at
Townaghmagradagh, stole a grey mare worth ^3, and a bay horse worth 20s.,
belonging to Rorie oge Mc Brians, and another bay horse of the same value, the
property of Donell McBrians. Guilty. To be executed.

That Artt McCormock O'Hagan, and Shane mcArtt mcCormocke O'Hagane,
of Donoghenrie, gentlemen, on the 14th Octr., 161 4, there entered the mansion
house of James Baxter, clerk, between 11 and 12 at night, and insulted him and
his servants, and with a sword worth 2s. which they held in their right hands they
struck William Magy on the right side of his head, giving him a mortal wound of
5 inches long, 3 inches broad, and 4 inches deep, of which he instantly died. Art
not guilty, and Shane guilty. The latter to be executed, "et membra secreta," &c.,
as in former cases.

That Manus O'Hoone, of Ellanenuckie, yeoman, on the last day of Deer., 1614,
at Tooreagh, stole 24 sheep worth 2s. 6d. each, the property of Donnell oge
McEnally, yeoman. .Acquitted.

That Laghlin O'Cullen, Tirlagh McDavid O'Cullen, and Patrick Boy O'Cullen,
of Blackwater, yeomen, on the 7th March, 1612, at Ballacullen, near the Black-
water, stole a bay mare worth ^5, the property of Francis Caprone, and were
abetted by Teige Akeaneene, of Tulemason, yeoman. Laghlin guilty, and to be
executed. The others acquitted.

That George Sacheverell, of Dongannon, clerk, on the 5th of January, 1614,
there entered the mansion house of Edward Barnett, gentleman, and stole 5s. 6cL
out of "a truncke." Acquitted.

That James O'Hagan, of Arrater, yeoman, on the 15th February, 1613, at
Tolloghagcn, "in quandam Annam Clinton, spinster, &c., insultum fecit et contra
voluntatem felonice rapuit." Guilty. To be executed.

That Fealome O'Mullen, of Shigrome, yeoman, on the ist Nov., 1614, at
Ballaclugin, stole 2 mares worth 40s. each, the property of Teige O'Corr.
Acquitted.

38 Old Belfast.

That Tirlagh Mergagh McGillicullum, of Carrintealin, yeoman, on the 20th
Septr., 1 614, there stole a brown horse worth 40s., and another brown horse worth
30s., the property of Hugh Grome O'Quyn. Acquitted.

That Edmund O'Mullarcky, of Ballynecowly, clerk, on the 20th of August,

161 3, levied open war, and on the last day of that month was relieved, &c., by
Donogh and Teige mcGeanaght, yeomen. The two latter are found guilty and
adjudged to death, **et membra secreta," &c., as before mentd.

That Connor O'Mullcrene, of Coollkeerin, yeoman, on the 3rd Deer., 161 4, stole
a bay mare with a colt worth £6, a grey mare worth £^^ and a grey *' nagge "
worth 40S., the property of Thomas Foster, gentleman, and a black gelding worth
^4, the property of Thomas Thursky, gentleman. Acquitted.

That Demiott oge McDoun, of Mullaghallorie, on the 20th Novr., 1614,
published and declared these words, vizt. : — " That he had two swords^ and that he
aid hope to have good use for them before Xpias (Christmas), for the Poope of
Roome would send over O^Neale, the Earle of Tyrone, as a Kinge to govime this
kingdome with greate authoritie as he had informer limes^^ seditiously and traitor-
ously, to the great contempt of the King, against the peace, his crown, and
dignity, and contrary to the form and effect of divers statutes. No verdict.

That Shane mcArtt mcCormock O'Hagan, of Donaghenrie, yeoman, on the
14th Oct., 1614, with a sword worth 2s., struck William Magie on the right side of
his head, giving him a mortal wound of 3 inches broad, 5 inches long, and 4
inches deep, of which he instantly died, and that he was assisted, &c., by Tirlagh
mcHenrie O'Hagan, of the same place, gentleman. Said Tirlagh is acquittal.
Said Shane is further stated to have been aided by Hugh Grome O'Quine, of
Killmackmorrchie, yeoman, who is also tried and acquitted.

That Manus and Morragh O'Mongan, of Tamplemagra, yeomen, on the 20th
Novr., 1614, at Maghenekeeragh, between 2 and 3 at night, entered the mansion
house of John Roberts, gentleman, putting Sawe ny Feake, spinster, in bodily fear
of her life, and stole therefrom a brown cow worth 20s., the property of a person
unknown then in the house, as a distress, and also stole a rope (ftinem) worth 3d.,
the property of said John Roberts. Guilty. They say they are clerks, and they
are therefore branded in their left hands and delivered to the above-named minister,
John Moony.

That Edmund oge McEgerr, Patrick oge McEgerr, Shane McQuyne O'Neale,
Tirlagh O'Groome McEgerr, Owen McMahawne, Edmund Duffe McEgerr,
Tirlagh oge McEgerr, Neale M odder O'Neale, Hugh O'Neale mcCormocke, Enies
Duffe McEgerr, and Edmund Echaggie, of Clogher, yeomen, on the 10th of
January, 1614, there waged open war, &c. No verdict.

That Patrick Modder O'Maghane, of Termoumeaghan, yeoman, on the 4th
January', 161 4, at Curraghroe, wounded and ill-treated Saue ny Harae. No verdict.

That Thomas Goodlucke, gentleman ; George Allexander, yeoman ; David
Ecklies, ** Tailor ;" John Cauder, "weaver ;" and George Straughan and Thomas
Stephinston, yeomen, all of Derregellie, on the last day of November, 161 4, at
Cavangarvane, rioutously assembled together and entered the dwelling-house of
William Darragh, clerk, who had been in the quiet possession thereof for a term of
years, and expelled him and his servants therefrom. Thomas Goodlucke is tried
and acquitted.

That Owin Magvv>Te, of Dongannon, yeoman, on the 25th March, .1610, at
Ballinseggarde, stole a black horse worth £\i, the property of Shane O'Neale,
yeoman. No verdict.

That Owin mcFardorogh boy Ma^wyre, of Agher, yeoman, on the 3d March,

1614, published and declared the followmg seditious words, viz. : — " That he would
kill Emanuell I^y^ and throwe his heade out of the windowc of his o^un castle, for
that the Earle of Tyrone shoulde come with the King 01 ^paine his forces, and come
to Mounaghan, Dondalke, Drogheda, and Dublin, and that the Earle of Tyrone
sholde be King in Ire/and, and woulde kill all the Scotts and Englishmen in the
Kingdome,"^^ No verdict.

That Dermott oge mcDoun, of Agher, yeoman, on the 20th of November,
1614, there spoke, published, and declared these malicious words, viz. : — ^^ I woulde
God I hadd fortie Soulders in armes in everie Castle within this Kingdome of

Order of Court of Exchequer, i6i8.

Inland, and a good store of others sufficient men at my commaunde vntkin the Castle
of Dublin, and the Kingt of England allso with me there, whereby I might make the
said King of England {meaning the now King fames) to kisse the Poape his
showe." No verdict.

That Hugh mcDonell O'Neale, of Batlylaghnegue, gentleman, on the last day
of Deer., 1613, there spoke, &c., these seditious words, viz. :— " That the King of
Englandwas but a vetie poore fellow, when he was a scolltr learninge the languages,
ana that he did much ivoonder that he shoulde be King of England, for if it shold be
tried bv histories or crounicles, himself e had as much right to 6e King as hee"
(meaning the now King fames). Acquitted.

©rbcr of tbe Ejrcbequer

t THE Exchequer Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin,

xxxmo. die Aprilis, i6i3.

iEMORANDUM. WhereasiheKing's most excel-
lent Majcslie that nowe is, by his letters pattents
dated the vjth dale of July, in the second yere
' his raigne of England, &c., did graunte to
r Randall mcDonnell, knight, and the heirs
males of his bodie, wih remainders over the
ie called the Route, in the countie of
le, eontaineing ix Toughes, the country
called the Glynns, in the said countie, con-
laineing 7 Toughes, the Hand of Ratblynns,
parcell of the Glynns, and the foure lownes
called the Creggs, parcell of the Route, 10 be
holden of his Sla'i'-. his hejres and successors,
by the service of sixe Knights' flees, in capite.
.And graunted alsoe other letters pattents, dated
the xijth daie of Maye, in the fourth yere of his reigne, to Shaune mcBrien O'Nealle
and his heirs, the toughes of Minter Rlndie, Touglienefinghe, Toughe Muntercallie,
Toughe Knock eboynabarde, anil Toughe Muntermurigan, in ihe said Countie, to
be holden of his Majestic, his heirs and successors, in capiie by the tenneth parte
of a Knight's flee. And alsoe graunted by other letters patents, dated the xth daie
of Match, in the fifi yere of his highnes raigne, to Rorie oge mcQuillene and his
heirs, the toughe of Clynaharlie, in the said countie, to Ije holden of his Majesiie,
his heirs and successors, in capite by the xxth pane of a Knight's ffee, and alsoe
graunted by other letters pattents, dated the xxvjth of June, in the fourth yere of
his highnes raigne, unto ChahiU O'Harrae and his heirs, the Toughe of Keart, in
the said countie, to be holden of his highnes, his heirs and successors, in capite by
the service of the xxth parte of a Knight's ffee. And alsoe graunted by othere
letters pattents, dated the xxvjth of May, in the fourth yere of his Ma"- raigne, to
oge Neille mcNeille, and Hugh o'Neile, the territorie or toughe of Kilmacherett,
and the toughe of Killelaghe, in the said county, to be holden of his highnes, his
heirs and successors, in capite by the ser\-ice of the xxth pane of one Knight's ffee.
And whereas processe of distringas yssued out of this court retomable this Tenne
against the before named parties, and the tennants of the forsaid severall Toughes,
to cause them to come to doe their severall homages due to his hifjhnes for the
said Toughes, by vertue of their said severall Tenures, ffor respitlinge of »■*•>
service of homadge a flynne is usually accostomed to be paid to his Ma'«'i and
that sometimes more or lesse accordinge as the lands soe holden are valued ; and
forasmuch as it is sufficiently knowne to this court (hat the forsaid Toughes are
scituated and beinge in the north parts of this Kingdome, w'^'' is intended shortlie
to be planted wth collonies and undertakers, soe as at this present the said
Toughes, being for the most part wast and unhabiied, are as yett of litle annuall

40 Old Belfast.

value. And forasmuch alsoe as the right 'honnorable the nowe Lo: Deputic hath
this dale under his bande si^ified to this courte as followeth ; — I knowe much of
(he lande whin menconed is wast (meaninge the before named Toughes), and
noe parte of it improved by any maner of husbandry other than in grasseinge of
cattle and in soweinge of litle oates, and the proprietors of the lande to be for the
most pane very poore and needie, and the twoe childrenn of Neile mcHughe to be
yett under age, wherefore I thinke it fitte that the Court of Excheaquor should
consider thereof, and to rate the respille of homadge accordinglie for a time untill
the country be better inhabited, and these men made to understande that it is not
an imposition but a lawefuU duetie and paiement due to his Ma'ie-. this is my
advise and opinion for the present, xxxth of April 1, 1610. Arthure Chichester. It

is therefore ordrcd, upon mature and deliberate consideracon hade by the Barrons
of Ihis his Ma"' court of Exchequer, as well of the state of the wasts of the said
northeren parts of the nature and disposicon of the natives [here resideing, as alsoe
of his honnor's said advise, that every of the before-named parlies shall nowe paie
to his Majestic as a fine for respilleingc of their severall homadges for everie
Toughe they hold as aforsaid yerelie from the date of their said letters pattents,
for and untill the feast of Easter last past, i6to, the somme of fou re pence, togither
w'h such fees as is <iue to the second Remembrauncer of this Court, for makeinge
their acquittances and warrants of atturney ; and henceforth as civilitie and
habitacon shall increase in the forsaid parts, and as there said lands hereafter shall
be improved and manured, soe this Courte answerablie will consider and advise to
augment their lines 10 be due to his highnes, his heirs and successors, for the
respiiteinge of their severall homadges for there severall Toughes aforesaid.

JO. DENHAM,

Commission on Waste of Woods, 1625.

I SUIT in chancery in 1625, between Hugh,
Lord Viscount Montgomery of the Ardes &
Dame Amy Conway widow & administratrix
j of Sir Fouike Conway deceased, the decision
decreed to the Lady Amy permission to cut
I trees & woods, mentioned in a certain order
of the court, for the use of her iron works,
& all manner of woods & underwoods growing on the
lands of Slutt M'Neale ; except only the bodies & butts
of great and young oak & ash which are not already
dead or hollowed, & except such boughs and branches
of oak as are fit for pipe boards, mill timber ; house
timber, or ship timber ; the exception or restraint to
continue only untill a division of the woods shall take
place, & for this purpose it is ordered that a commission
issue to the Bishop of Dromore, Sir Edward Trevor, Sir
Henry O'Neill, Nicholas Ward, and Richard West, to inquire
on oath what waste had been committed in the woods since
the 22nd August in the fourth year of the late King James.

The commission was issued on the 18 of June, & they
immediately impannelled a jury "some of whom were car-
penters well versed in timber works." They found that there
were standing on the lands of the size of six inches at the butt
8,883 trees ; & that there had been cut, of the same size,
1 1,631. They also find that there had been cut for the use of
Lord Chichester, for the building of his houses at Carrickfergus
& Belfast, no less than 500 oak trees. One Adam Mont-
gomery had with four workmen cut a great number of trees.

42 Old Belfast.

Mr. Dalway cut three score of trees. Anthony Coslet tenant
of Sir Moses Hill cut 127 trees at Blairis ; & all were cut
without leave of the lord Clandeboy, the Lord of Ardes, Sir
Foulke Conway, his Lady or any of their agents. The Com-
missioners further state that the roofs of the churches of Grey
Abbey, & Cumber, a store of timber for the Lord of Ardes
buildings at Newton & Donaghadee had been taken from the
woods in question, besides a great store for the manufacture
of pipe staves, hogshead staves, barrel staves, Keeve staves S:
spokes for carts. And they conclude with dividing the woods
into two parts, one for Lord Claneboy, the other for the Lord
of Ardes. (Pinkerton MSS.)

Customs, Jgycise, &c., in 3relan6, a.®. 1637,

The following extracts are taken from a report on the state of the Customs,
written by Charles Moiicke, Surveyor-General to Sir George Ratcliffe,
in i6jj. (From Harleian, No. 2rjS.)

HH; merchants and pedlars discharge at
Glcnarm, where there is no waiter, and fill
the country full of commodities whereof
none appear in the books. The pedlars out
of Scotland take advantage of such un-
guarded creeks, and swarm about the
country in great numbers, and sell all
manner of wares, which they maj- afford at
easier rates than poor shopkeepers that live
in corporations, bear offices, pay cess and all
charges, and their due customs, and are
beggared by these Runagadoes, who have
no residence or place of abode in the
kingdom, but bring over wares, steal the
custom, and convey the money over in specie,
and that to no small value, which journeys deserve a careful and
speedy prevention."

" There is a place called Conn's water, within two miles of Belfast,
and another place called Garmoyle, part of the port of Bangor, in both
which places the officers of Carrickfergus receive a benefit of the third
part of the customs for wines or other goods discharged there, whereas,
if they entered in Bangor, the King receives the whole. The farthest
of these creeks is not above three miles from Hollywood, where the
waiter is resident, and can come at low water to the ships' sides. I

Old Belfast.

gave charge to the waiter of Hollywood to take charge of them, that
no goods should be shipped or dischai^ed there but he should be
present with the officers of Carrickfergus, it being unfit that wines and
goods of value should be discharged there without them both.

"There wanted a boat at Hollywood, which I gave orders to buy,
and to give Boulton, the waiter, fifty shillings per annum to keep in
repair.

"John Boulton was waiter at Hollywood, being a creek of Bangor,
by deputation for per ann. :^20.

" There was no beam, scales, weights, or storehouse at Hollywood,
so the goods seized, being put in weak places, have been stolen away.
I gave order for supplying these defects."

Bangor. — " There is a fair custom-house built but not finished by the
Lord of Claneboy, who hath received between two and three hundred
pounds of the King towards it, and hath bestowed at least six hundred
pounds already, and two hundred pounds more will hardly finish it. It
is a large pile of stones made with flankers, and might serve as well for
defence of the harbour. There are very large storehouses, lodging
chambers for officers, with chimneys, studdys, and places to lay all
sorts of commodities in, with as much convenience as may be. If it
were finished it were the best custom-house in Ireland, and stands as
convenient as it can be placed to the ground given by his Lp. for a
wharf and crane, which he hath granted under his hand and seal, and
was himself present at the setting of it forth, and is most forward upon
all occasions to give the officers countenance and furtherance ; and it
is a pity but either the King's Majesty or his Lp. should finish that
work so happily began by his Lp. of the custom-house."

He notices no establishment at Belfast ; but among the officials at
Carrickfergus he mentions John Sande, waiter at Belfast, ;f20 fee per

Customs, Excise, &c* in Ireland, a.d. 1637. 45

" At Carrickfergus, the custom-house and storehouse are very fair,
well situated, and strong, being an old castle repaired, wherein are
many convenient rooms for lodging chambers, studies for officers, and
all things necessary. It is almost finished, and, being fully repaired, is

the fittest place can be chosen. It is well floored, wainscotted, and
glazed, and hath provided the King's arms very decently to be on the
outside of it.

" Two boatmen at Carrickfergus deserve their salary if they be
honest, trusty, and always have their boat afloat and ready ; but I
suspect them, being Scotchmen, to be hardly indifferent against their
countrymen who altogether trade in that place.

" John Hornby, the waiter of CarrickferRus, gave a let pass for two
tuns of French wine to be discharged at Garmoyle out of a ship of
Belfast, the first of June, 1637, which was more than a waiter ought to
do, although it had paid custom, it being their duties to execute
warrants and make none. Of this and some other miscarriages I did
admonish him, and I verily believe that it will not be long before he
give further occasion, he being somewhat extravagant in his ways,
and debauched and idle.

" Andrew Edmonds, waiter at Bangor, salary £1 5 per ann. A man
of evil fame, debauched, and dangerous to his nearest and dearest
friends, having, as it is known, offered violence to his own mother, and
drawn her blood to the danger of her life. He used many exorbitant
and strange extortions, and was so peremptory in them, that he

boasted that he but to get at least 20 shillings a-week

by them, as if he had a warrant to receive bribes or extort."

From Drogheda to Derry, dreads his jounicj' home.

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Speaking of the London Companies' possessions in Ca Deny, he
says : —

" The country is spacious, the soil for the most part good, and
yielding commodities of the best value ; but, alas ! I find that the
English there are but weak and few in number, there being not forty
houses in Londonderry of English of any note, who for the most part
only live. The Scots, being many in number, and twenty to one for
the English, having privy trade in the town and country, thrive and
grow rich, and the Irish for the most part beg, being the reward of
their idleness"

The difficulties, mountains and deep ways. Never went a worse
Journey in his life ; 3 score and ten days.

Carrick. The customs there inwards and outwards to the 24
Septr. was ^1,137 3s, gd. Bangor, from Lady Day to 17 Septr,
inwards, /"71 9s. i id. ; out, £920 16s. 8d.

It might be as well to describe the mode of taxation at the time.

The Customs Inwards and Outwards were settled on the Crown
by the Act of Subsidy of Poundage and Tonnage passed in the 14th
and 15th year of Charles II., whereby one shilling in the pound, or J
per cent., was decreed to be paid for all goods and merchandise (wines
and oils excepted) imported and exported by natives, according to the
value as rated in the book of rates, or affirmed by oath of the
merchant.

Goods imported or exported by aliens paid double the customs
payable by natives.

French wine paid £i 10s. per tun if imported by a native, but
£4 13s, 4d. if by an alien.

Customs, Excise, &c., in Ireland, a.d. 1637. 47

Salad oil was liable to a duty of £3 3s. if imported by a native, but
if by an alien, £3 i8s. 9d.

The Imported Excise settled by the same Act was a duty granted
to the Crown, whereby all drugs imported were to pay 10 per cent., or
two shillings in the pound.

The Inland Excise, by the same Act, was a duty of 2s. 6d. on
every 32 gallons of strong beer brewed by common brewers, and also
on every other person who should tap or sell the same publickly or
privately.

Every 32 gallons of small beer brewed or sold was liable to a duty
of six-pence.

All Aquavitae, or strong waters, made or distilled for sale, paid 4d.
for each gallon.

Ale Licences, a duty settled on the Crown by the same Act,
whereby no person may sell ale or beer by retail without a license, the
cost of which was twenty shillings (and one shilling to the collector)
for each licence yearly.

Wine and Strong Water Licences were settled on the Crown
by the Statute 17 and 18 Charles II. There was no certain rate for
these licenses, the duty being " compounded and agreed for yearly,
according as the circumstances of trade and times do offer and give
encouragement," paying two shillings for each wine and one shilling
for each strong water license to the Collector.

Fines and Seizures were levied and made for infringements of
the Customs and Revenue Acts.

Plantation Duty was the English duty received and secured
with the exchange of money (over and above the usual duties payable
inwards) for commodities of the growth and production of the English
plantations brought directly thence and bound for England, and only
landed in Ireland upon very urgent and extra ordinary occasions. As
in case of shipwreck, or a vessel in want of provisions, so much was
admitted entry as would enable the captain to pay for supplies. The
said duty on being received was transmitted by bills without charge
to the Receiver-General of the Customs in England.

Quit Rents were payable to the Crown by the Acts of Settle-
ment and Explanation out of the estates forfeited by the rebellion in
the year 1641.

Crown Rents were ancient yearly rents reserved to the Crown
on land granted by favour since the conquest of Ireland.

In the Inland Excise were also included Hearth Money by the
above-mentioned Act, according to which every fire-hearth, stove,
publick oven, or kiln, paid two shillings annually. A fire-place
unfixed or without a chimney paid four shillings.

There were other ancient duties then collected, as Prisage, belong-
ing to the Dukes of Ormond as the King's hereditary butlers. Every
ship importing more than nine and less than 18 tuns of wine paid a
tun in kind, and every vessel importing more than 18 tuns paid two
tuns and no more, which was collected for his Grace by his agent.

48 Old Belfast.

When on this subject, I may add that the Lord Deputy, the Lord
Chancellor, the Privy Councillors, the Serjeants -at -Law, the Attorney-
General, the Solicitor-General, and the Clerk of the Council, were
allowed to import each a certain quantity of wine duty free. This,
however, in 1693, or earlier, was commuted into a money payment,
the Collector of the Port of Dublin paying in lieu thereof —

To the Lord Lieutenant, ^76 los. ; to the Lord Chancellor,
£1$ I2S. ; to every Privy Councillor, ;£ii 14s. ; and to the Serjeants-
at-law, Attorney- General, Solicitor-General, and Clerk of the Council,
the sum of ^5 17s. each.

An excellent account of the Irish Revenue for five years, from the
landing of Duke Schomberg in August, 1689, to Christmas, 1693, in
the handwriting of Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Commissioner of the
Revenue, and the father of Dean Swift's unfortunate Vanessa. He
was appointed Commissioner by patent dated 15th July, i6go and
held the office till his death, 29th December, 1703. (Pinkerton MSS.}

%>■'< -•J'-(iftfll^,nn • '

flDonroe's 'Kai& on IHcwi^, 1(543.

A Dispatch by an unknown Officer.

HE 26th of Septemb., 1643, was appointed for
the meeting of all the forces at Lisnagarvy.
This meeting should have been much sooner,
but that some things did hinder, whereof one
was an offer made by divers Rebells of
comming in, if they might have protection, and
offering to doc service against the Rebells. It
was tought fitt to receave them, but upon the
assurance that they should doe some such service by killing some of
the Rebells as should make themselves irreconcileable to them. The
Cannon allso came at that time out of Scotland, and the Earle
of Leaven did intend to take some pieces with him, having an
intention to goe to Charlemont, for without them wee did not think
it fitt to go thither, and wee could onely have destroyed the Corne.
This Expedition it was hoped would have relieved Dungannon,
which the Rebells did hold besieged, and it was most certayne that it
would, for if that provision of victualls for 20 dayes were brought
which was commanded, the army must of necessitie have passed so
neere to Dungannon, either in besieging of Charlemont or destroying
of Corne, that it would have been relieved without all doubt. But,
first, there could bee but 14 dayes' provision of victualls gotten, a very
small proportion, for the goeing to Charlemont from Carrickfergus
would bee six dayes' march. Another hinderance from goeing to

50 Old Belfast.

Charlemont was want of carriage, for there were not beasts enough to
carry the Canon and the ammunition. Another let there was, that
when the Scotts army came to Bellfast, it rained so extreamely for
two nights and a daye that it made the wayes extrcameldy bad and
the rivers very high, so that the Army, consisting of Eight halfe
Regiments of Scotts, with all theyr horse, and i,ooo foote of English
forces, and 3 troopes of horse and some field pieces, marched first to
Loughbricklen. There being some forces of the Rebells, they went to
Tanderogee. Some little encounter they had, and if the Rebells had
bin willing they might then have fought, for there were all theyr
forces, but they had no will to it and retired, and the Scotts army, not
having had anie intention for to goe further, contented themselves with
destroying the Corne about Tanderogee, and from thence marched to
the Newry, where more men were left, so that that garrison is now
1,200 strong in foote and a troope of horse. One end of the Towne
hath a hill that overlooks it, and on it the Church, which formerly
had been made for a defence for the Towne. I have repared all these
things which age and neglect had decayed, which might serve for the
defence of the place, and at the other end of the Towne next the
river order was given for the making of a worke which might defend
that part and make the Towne tenable, which without that it would
hardly bee. In the time that the Army stayed there, what Corne
could be gotten was brought into the Towne. In the returne from
hence some parties were sent into the mountaines of Morne ; all the
Corne where they came to was destroyed, and all the Irish houses
burnt. There was a party also sent into McCartan's woods. There
Lievtenand Coloncll Hamilton, of the Lo: Claneboye's Regiment,
having with him 24 files of musketiers of 6 to a file, having taken a
prey of Cowes, and coming through the woods with, the Rebells
having made a barricade crosse the way with pieces of trees, they
suffered them to breake up one barricade without molestation ; and
when they had gone a little further and met with another barricade,
beginning to undoe it, the Rebells set upon them. At the first, or
allmost at the first charge the Lievtenand Coloncll was shott through
the bellie, which did so dishearten the soaldiers that they were within
very little of routing ; but it hapned that there was a gentleman thcr,
a good gallant man, one that had been a commander, but then without
command, and onely a voluntier, spake so to them, and behaved him-
selfe so well with them, that he did reassure them. But the Enemy
pressed them so hard, that hce would not have had leave to have
given them assurance if that Major Ballindin, who commands the
Generall's Guard of horse, and was there with that troope and
another, had not caused them to close on one side, and hee charged
the Enemy, which hee did very well and resolutely.

This skirmish (wherein some officers were hurt and about 140
soaldiers killed) lost them some of theyr cowes, but they brought
2 or 300 to the Army, which upon the returne of the Parties that
went into McCartan's woods marched to theyr several quarters. Now
they are providing for theyr winter quarters. The Lo: Conwaye*s Rcgi-

Monroe's Raid on Newry, 1643. 5^

ment lyes at Lisnagarvy and at 4 fortes which are made at Kilulta.
Mr. Chichester's Regiment lyes in Bellfast and in Malone, where a
fort is making. Sr. John Clotworthy's Regiment lyes at Antrim, at
Montjoy, which is likely the Rebells will now attempt, for they have
nothing now to trouble them, Dungannon being given up to them
after they had endured great extreamitie for want of victualls, living
divers weeks without any bread at all, and having nothing to eat but
the hides and tallow of the beasts. The keeping of Dungannon would
have been of good importance, but things hapning out so as that the
Scotts did not goe, the Lo: Conway stayed for to make triall, if it
were possible to relieve Dungannon.

To that end he went to Antrim, and took order for the sending of
men over the lough, but gave them order to gett intelligence of the
state and condition of the Rebells, and wether they were strong about
Dungannon or no, for it was thought that the Rebells would draw all
theyr forces to attend on the Scotts Army, and therefore would have
none or very few men about Dungannon, and because that this was
likely, and he knew how little a while they would have occasion
to attend upon what the Scotts Army would doe, and therefore that
they would return quickly to Dungannon againe. Therefore, so soone
as hee knew that the Scotts would not march towards Dungannon,
he did immediately sent away a drumme over the Lough with a
message to Sr Phillemy O'Ncille, but with a command for to see
wether it were possible to get into Dungannon, and then hee was to
deliver a letter to Captaine Jones, wherein he was commanded to
quitt Dungannon & to blow up the Fort because it was impossible to
supply them with victualls. If this could have been done, there
would have been done as much by that single drumme as could have
been done by all the men wee could have sent, but the windes being
contrary, no boate could passe in divers dayes, and our men going
over, they heard that the Rebells were about Dungannon ; and the
last did receive certain intelligence that the Rebells were very strong
about Dungannon, that they had intelligence of theyr coming over the
Lough, and that they had prepared an ambuscade, for they knew
theyr number. It hapned that the day before they came Dungannon
was delivered upon very good conditions, and they were brought by
Sr. Phillemie O'Neille in safetie to Montjoy.

Captaine Jones (who commanded in Dungannon) behaved himself
as well as it was possible for any man to doe, and the Rebells them-
selves doe give him a very good testimony, and because that Montjoy
is now next in danger, the Lord Conway had sent order for 300 men
out of the Regiments of the Lo: Claneboy and the Lo: Montgomery
and Sr. James Montgomery that wee may keepe it if it be possible ;
the whole care of keeping it lying upon the English. The Regiments
of the Lo: Claneboy and the Lord Montgomery doe lye upon theyr
owne lands. The Regiment of Sr. James Montgomerie lye in the little
Ards as yet : the Scotts Army lyes at Carrickfergus, thereabout, in
the Ards and Claneboyes, upon the Ban's side from Toome to Coll-
rane, and in the Newry. The yeare hath been very wett, which had

Old Belfast.

made the han-est very backward : it is now the 9' of Octob : and the
Harvest is not yet in : the Rebells doe what they can to gett the
Come. Because they should not bee neighbours to us, all is done
that possiblie can bee to destroy theyr corne, and to that end parties
arc sent out by the Lo : Conway, whereof some are now abroad.
(Pinkerton A/SS.)

A FURTHER DISPATCH.

JHE Scottish Army, or partie, as they call it, which did
consist of 3,600 foote, and 3 troopes of horse, and 4 field
pieces, did march about the 7th of this month to Charle-
mont, and I believe might have taken it without any
' great loss, but they sent to the Newry the next day
after they came thither, 100 men upon soe manie of their baggage
horses for meale, and the same day they sent out their horse with 300
musketicrs one baggage horses into the Countric to understand what
the Rebells did prepare to do, and what prey of cowes they would get
to bring to the armie; tliey met with very ill waycs, and so disad-
vantageous that they brought little or nothing from the Rebells.
About 40 of the musketeers, as 1 have heard, were lost by apprehend-
ing the disadvantage of the ground and the thought of the enemy too
much, although he that commanded them did all that was possible for
him to doe; by some entelligence they got that day, it was doubted
the Rebells would make an attempt upon the partie which was to
come from the Newry with meale, which although they were 400
musketiers with those that were sent and those that came from the
Newry, yet was it thought there might be danger, the Rebells being
reported to bee 3 or 4 thousand, and if they should be beaten the
army would bee lost, for all the victnalls were spent, so that Charle-
mont was quitted, and the Army marched to meet there partie from
the Newrie, which they did in good time, the soaldiers having had
nothing to eat in a day or two before. A Httle before there marching
the Rebells in the woodes between Portadownc and Charlemont made
a show upon a hill with 3 Coloures, and all their women, horses, and

Monroe's Raid on Newry, 1643. 53

Cowes, and Goates, to make a great bodie, and at their coming away
a peece was shott from the Castle which strook of a soaldier*s arme,
and hurt another. They did it in a bravadoe, having onely shott that
peece all the coming and going ; some few soaldiers were killed there,
and Colonell Hume was shott in the heele, the day after that the
partie from the Newry was met, was spent in giveing of meale to the
soaldiers. The next day another partie was sent into the mountaincs,
and a place appointed for them to meet with the maine bodie, which
marched another way into the mountaines passable for the Cannon.
At night they met, and the partie brought in many cowes and Killed
about 40 men or more and many women and children, in all (some
say) 500, some say 700 ; of the Scottish soaldiers few were lost ;
diverse of these who came without command in hope of gain, and
are here called plunderers, an ill race of people, and very hurtfull to
an armie, were lost. The Rebells made no fight at all, they had not
anie powder in that place, yet they did endeavour to drive back their
Cowes. Some of them came neere to the Place where the maine bodie
of the Scotts was, from which a partie of 100 musketiers was sent out
and mett with them ; upon notice given to the Gennerall Maior he
went with about 2 third partes of his men, and sending some com-
mended men before, they met with the armie sent out in morning.
They took each other for the enemy, some shott were given, but they
quickly found there mistake. The next day, the bodie of the armie
went to the Newry by the way that the cannon might goe. A partie
was sent by the hills that came at night to the Newry, and brought
great store of

/" D0nDeA.i5An A

ARMS OF DUNDALK.

but the Irish fledd, and by reason of that chaseing of the enemy from
place to place with there catle, they were forced nearer Dundalke than
usuall, whereof that Garrison having notice sent out men and took
from them a great prey of 2,000 Cowes and very many sheep. 2 dayes
after, the weather being fowle, parties were sent out unto the moun-
taines between Carlingford and Dundalke, whence they brought home
manie Cowes and Sheep ; allsoe the whole division of the prey att
their returne was 2,700 Cowes. It is sayd that there was lost and
killed in this expedition of the plunderers and soaldiers about 400
men. I will not report it for certaine, although I hard some Scotts-
men themselves say soe, because the most parte of them were lost
scatteringlye, and being under no government it could not be dis-

54 Old Belfast.

cerned when they were lost. In the absence of the Scotts Armie, I
had commanded that parties of my Regiment should be sent out into
the woods and imployed in makeing workes for keeping small garrisons
to cleare the countrie of the Rebells, and upon the 9 of this month
300 Musketiers and 40 horse, commanded by Captn. Rawden, lighted
upon some of the Rebells that were returned into the woods and
bogges of Kilullta and Kilmore, to divyd the Scottishe armie, and
killed divers of them, drove some of them into Loghneagh, where they
were drowned, and the rest fledd over the Bann. They tooke from
them 260 Cowes and manie mares and Coltes ; and in a few daies
after, upon the comeing back of the Scotts, Captn. Rawden, beleeveing
the Rebells would for there safeguard betake themselves again into
the woods of Kilmore and Clanbrassell, sent out 10 horse from a
worke he was att in Killulta to discover : who assured him that diverse
of the Rebells were come back with their goods over the Ban, and that
about 20 of them shewed themselves in the woods and marched
towards them, but the horse charged them, and as soone as they had
given fire upon them were rid of their Companie. Upon that intelli-
gence, 400 foote and about 90 horse went out under the Capt"-
Rawden and marched to the Ban side in severall parties and wings,
cleared the woods between Kilulta and the Ban ; but the Rebell
scouts, discovering some of our horse upon the side of the woods, they
gott both their cattle and themselves over the River, notwithstanding
2 of Sr. John Clottworthy's boates by appointment were come with
musketiers to the mouth of the Ban to prevent it, that being the onlie
place fordable in 10 miles ; but they have acquainted themselves and
there cattle so with takeing the River, that they doe it as readily as
duckes. The next day some horsemen were sent back with orders to
fire the Cabbins mongst the woods in there way to the Lurgan to
amaze the Eniemic, and make them believe the whole partie was
defeated, which took good cfTfcct, and that made the Rebells secure on
the other side, and that evening the whole partie marched without
anie noyse up the woods necre Knockbridgc, where there is a deep
foard, and quartered within halfe-a-mile that night, and by dawne in
the morning marched away to the foord, where a 100 men were left to
make good the passe, and all the baggage and horse by command took
up the rest of the foote and carried them over att 3 turnes behind them.
The enemie had scouts that discovered them, whereupon they run all
with their goods to the highway to Charlemont. A few troope of 30
horse was sent awaie, and the rest marched after, and the foote were
commanded to goe 4 miles to Battle hill, and there to stand to make
good the retreat of the horse. After 2 miles' march the Horse came
to a worke of the enemie, which they quitt without once giving fire
upon them ; butt the filling it upp with sodds to passe over gave them
halfe-an-houre's Interruption. After they made great hast to over-
take the Rebells, who fledd towardes Charlemont, and to make good
rest there, Carriages, cattle, mantles, and what else troubled them.

There was standing come in diverse places by the way side, which
saved manie of them. The Horse pursued many of them to the

Monroe's Raid on Newry, 1643. 55

Black-water side, where manie of them were drowned. Manie were
killed in their way, and much more execution had been done
if the Horse had not bene tyred; there was not 12 that could
come upp to the end of the Chase. They brought back about
700 Cowes, and if they could have carried it, and had time to doe it,
abundance of mealc and butter and other thinges had bene brought
away which was left. The same night the Horse and foote and
all they had gotten were by great diligence gotten safe back
over the Band. Some 4 Musketiers had stolen out contrary to
express command to plunder in the woods, where they were killed
that night. Some of the Rebells were come back after them, and
made manie showes in the night from the farther side of the River
upon the buy (sic) guard att the foorde and broken bridge, but being
deceived by false fires and lighted matches that the centeries had
order to lay, did no harme, so that the next day they all marched
home through the woods very safely with there prey. (Pinkerton
MSS,)

Z\iz Ces0ation, 1643— account of Corn*

Com left at the Right Honble. the Lo: Blayney his quarter, and taken away by
the Irish, 5th October, 1643, in O'Nciland. Of Barley dressed, 3 br. bar. ; more
120 Stookes of Barley estimated to brs., 40 br. bar. ; of Burnt Oates, 60 br. bar. ;
more 290 Stookes, estimat. 90 br. bar.

Corne taken then by the Irish out of Capt: Patterson's quarter. Of Barley,
100 stooks, estim. 33 br. bars. ; of oats, 600 stooks, estimat. 200 br. bars.

Come left at Capt. Parratt's quarter, in Oriell, and taken by them. Of oats,
ready dressed, 66 br. bars. Totall of the oats taken away belonging to ye Lo:
Conway's Regt., 765 br. bars, which at 6s. a bar. comes to ^^229 los.

A note of Come taken up by the Irish from the officers and soaldiers of
Colonell Chichester's Regiment. At Maghulacon, oates, 52 br. bars. ; at Legar-
lorry, oates, 22 br. bar. ; at Leganor>% shilling barley, 3 br. bar. ; at Legarrory,
shilling barley, 10 br. bar. Total, 87 br. bar.

And neere Tollbridge, as much oates as 20 men stokt and reapt in one day ;
this did belong to Major Chichester.

Come belonging to Capt. Lyndon, Burnt Comes, 20 br. bar. ; also 60 stooks
oates estimat. 20 br. bar.

Come belonging to Captn. Ellis, Shilling, 40 ; Burnt oates, 100 ; Seede oates,
10 ; barley, 16 ; meale, 6 ; barley in stooks, 80. At Castlecope, seven score stooks
by esttma. 42 bar.

Com taken by them belonging to Capt. John Michaell and his company in
O'Nciland, 5th October, 1643. Of oates, thrashed and cleansed, 140 ; of wheat, 4 ;
of barley, 3 ; of seede oates in stooks, about 60 ; besides the soldiers' come and
meale, estimated nearly 100.

Come taken then belonging to Capt. Trusdall's Company. Of barley, dressed,
24 br. bar. ; more 100 stooks barley, 33 br. bar. ; of oates, 39 br. bar. ; more 30
stooks of oates, 10 br. bar. The totall barley, 140, which at 15s. a bar. comes to
£\o^. Summa totalis, £Z3^ 'os., of all which we desire present satisfaction.

Come belonging to Capt. McAdam. Of oates in stook, estimat. 60 ; bumt
oates, 20 ; barley in stook, estimat. 20.

Come belonging to Capt. Martin, neere Hamilton's barony, oates, 60 ; at
Molaghdroy, oates, 30 ; Shilhng at Molaghdroy, oates, 2 ; and as much com neere
Mulaghdroy as 70 men could reap and stook in one day.

More Come belonging to Captain Ellis. Burnt oates at his old qrtrs., 7 ;

Old Belfast.

barley, 3 ; at his new qrtrs., oaies in stock, estimal. 15 br. bar. ; barley, 7 br. bar. ;
at another place, 6 stocks and 5 siooks of oates, and 3 stocks of barley, by Estim-
ation, 40 bar. The totall of all the oaies taken away belonging to Coll. Chichester's
Regmt. being 458 br. bar., which at 6s. a bar. comes to ^,137 8s. The Total!
of Barley, Shillings, and Meale, 192 bar, which at 15s. a bar. comes to £144.
Summa Totalis, j^aSi 8s., of all which we desire present satisfaction. {Pinttnen AfSS.t

nDonroe in Belfast, 1644.

IJY W. PiNKERTON, F.S.A.

|0\UOE, on the 27th of April, 1644,
received a commission from the English
Parliament to be commander-in-chief
of ail the English and Scotch forces in
Ulster. Sir James Montgomery, having
notice of this commission, sent to desire
the rest of the British Colonels to meet
him at Belfast to consider of an unani-
j mous answer to be given to Monroe
j-.j when he would assume their command,
M On Monday. May 13, the officers met,
a| including Sir James himself. Lord Mont-
gomery, Lord Hianey, Colonel Hill, Jlajor Rawdon, Sir Theophilus
Jones, Major Gore, and Colonel Chichester, who commanded Belfast.
They met in the evening, and adjourning their consultation to the
next morning, had retired to their lodgings, when a soldier of Colonel
Chichester's regiment, coming from Carrickfergus. brought advices
that Monroe had given orders for the garrison of that place, Colonel
Home's, and other Scotch regiments to be ready to march at two of
the clock the next morning towards Belfast. The guards hereupon
were strengthened, and every officer, as well those of the field as
others, ordered upon duty. This being done, some horses were sent
as scouts to make discoveries, who, returning at six in the morning.

Monroe in Belfast, 1644. 57

positively affirmed that they had been within three miles of Carrick-
fergus, and that the whole country was clear, without a man to be seen.
Upon this advice the guards were all discharged except the ordinary
watch, and the officers, who had been up all night upon duty, retired
to their rest. About an hour after, Monroe was descried within half-
a-mile of the town, advancing with great speed towards one of the
gates, which, before the drums could beat and the garrison be drawn
together to make opposition, was opened to him by a sergeant of
Captain MacAdam's and the soldiers of the guard, so that he
marched orderly through the place till he came to the opposite
or south gate leading to Lisnagarvey, and then directed his men in
several parties to possess themselves of the bulwark, cannon, and
guards. Colonel Chichester prevailed with the other Colonels to
repair to Monroe, and ask what he meant by surprising the town. He
replied that as Colonel Chichester had published a proclamation
against the Covenant, by which such as had taken it conceived them-
selves to be declared traitors, discountenanced his officers and the
townsmen who offered to take it, and had formerly refused some of
the Scotch to garrison there, he did not think himself safe without
having a garrison of his own in the place ; and so ordered Colonel
Chichester's men to depart, except such as he would leave as a guard
to his house. Thus was Belfast lost by the treachery of the scouts, who,
meeting Monroe, had been ordered by him to return and carry that
false intelligence of there being no forces to be seen in the countr}^

The treacherous action of Monroe overawed the British Colonels,
and induced them, without much further hesitation, to place them-
selves under his command, and co-operate with him in opposing the
Irish. But the act of hostility was reported at once to the English
Parliament, who required an explanation from the Committee of
Scotch Estates in Edinburgh, and they returned by the Scotch Com-
missioners at London the following account of the proceeding,
probably as delivered to them by Monroe : —

According to the direction of the Committee of Estates of the Kingdom

of Scotland, we do return this answer following to the desire of the honble.

Houses of Parliament concerning the surrender of Belfast.

That Col. A. Chichester, contrary to the declaration of both houses

I November, 1643, did agree to the Cessation made with the Irish.

That upon his agreement to the Cessation ;£3,ooo sterling was promised

to him out of the Cessation money, whereof he received ;^5oo sterlg.

That he kept constant correspondence with the Lord of Ormond by letters

and other ways after the Cessation.

That he conveyed Adjutant Stuart and Col. Seyton, then come from the

King's army in England, from Belfast to Dublin, there to negotiate with the

rebells.

That upon orders from the Lord of Ormond he caused proclaim all those

that joined with the Covenant traitors and rebels, and administered an oath to

his Regiment and Inhabitants for opposing the Covenant.

That he cashiered all such as had taken the Covenant, or refused to take

the oath against it.

That from the time of the first landing of the Scottish Army in Ireland

there was always a part of the Scottish forces quartered in Belfast until the

17th of March, 1644 ; that Col. Cambel's Regiment went into Scotland. And

the said town was only a place for quarters, and not fortified till, after the

58 Old Belfast.

removal of the Scottish forces, Col. Chichester brought his Regiment and
Troops which were quartered in the country into the town, and by order from
the Earl of Ormond fortified the same, planted cannon on the works, and did
begin to cut off the highway that enters Carrickfergus port. Whereupon
Gen. -Major Monroe, bemg advertised on the 12th of May, 1644, that the Earl
of Ormond and Council m Dublin had resolved to convey 1,500 men into
Belfast for the further strengthening of that garrison, did, upon the 14th of
May, in the morning, surprise the forces under command of Col. Chichester,
and possessed himself of the town of Belfast before they could be in readiness
to make opposition. Whereupon the said Col. Chichester went to Dublin,
and his forces to the rebels, ana the Lord of Ormond and Council, then finding
themselves disappointed in their designs, wrote a letter to Major-General
Monroe within three days after the town was taken, requiring him to restore
to Col. Chichester the said town of Belfast, with all the ordnance, arms,
ammunition, &c., as may appear by the said letter herewith presented. Now,
forasmuch as the said Coi. Chichester and his Regiment had agreed to the
Cessation, and joined with the Rebells in their Councils and actions, and so
continued in avowed opposition and open rebellion against the parliament of
England for the space of six months after the declaration of the honble.
houses, the Commander-in-Chief of the Scottish army was obliged by his com-
mission and instructions to endeavour the reducing of that garrison, and
having recovered the same out of the hands of the rebels, the said town or
garrison of Belfast ought to be at the disposal of the commanders thereof
during their abode for that service in those parts, where such towns and places
are, according to the tenth article of the treaty between the Kingdoms of the
sixth of August, 1642, especially since it is so necessary for quartering of the
Scottish forces there, who otherwise are not able to subsist, no care being
taken for their entertainment.

And as the said garrison, since it was in the power of the Scottish army,
hath always been patient to any having authority from the honble. houses for
magazine and other uses, so shall it be for the future on all occasions.

It will be observed how the Scottish Commissioners term this
treacherous surprisal " the surrender of Belfast ; " nor is the rest of their
communication distinguished by greater truth. It was not until a year
after the rebellion broke out that Scotch troops were quartered in
Belfast. A part of Colonel Campbel's regiment were the first of them
quartered in that town, about seven months after the Scotch army had
arrived in Ireland. Adjutant Stuart and Colonel Seaton were allowed
to pass through the Scotch army, as well as the regiment of Colonel
Chichester. And the Commissioners of the Parliament, writing from
Belfast on the i6th December, 1646, to the Estates of Scotland,
further state —

That there never was any oath administered by Colonel Chichester either
to his regiment or the inhabitants for opposing of the Covenant, and though
divers of his regiment had formerly taken the Covenant, he never cashiered
any for so doing, nor was any oath against it proposed, neither did any quit
his regiment upon the publication of the proclamation issued by the Earl of
Ormond against the Covenant, save one, Lieut. McAdam, who took occasion
thereupon to repair into Scotland, though he was earnestly desired by Colonel
Chichester to stay, and was promised a company for so doing.

And though we take not on us to excuse or extenuate any of the mis-
carriages of Colonel Chichester, yet as any thing is suggested to fortify the
reason of detaining this town (so properly and entirely belonging to the
disposal of the Parliamt. of England) we conceive it our parts to endeavour
the rectifying of any mistake in that kind, and rest assured that whatever
consequence is drawn from the reports of Col. Chichester agreeing

Monroe in Belfast, 1644. 59

to the Cessation with the Irish rebels, contrary to the Declaration of
the Parliamt. of England, is so fully known to be ill-grounded, that
nothing is more manifest than that his regiment was one of those
that were before Charlemont, when the news of the Cessation came to
that Army, that they continued with the longest that time in the field, and that
he sent on all occasions after that time part of his Regiment with the other
forces when they went abroad, partaking also in the dividend of the cattle
gotten from the rebel, as others did that attended that service. And all this
was constantly done after the Cessation, and untill the town was possessed by
Major-General Monro, Col. Chichester being then only permitted to stay in
the Castle with one hundred of his regiment, and the rest of them at that time
designed quarters in the parts near the town. And truly though Col. Chichester
had submitted to the Cessation contrary to the directions of Parliament, yet
why he should be therefore conceived as one that is in the condition of an Irish
rebel, and so to bring the place taken from him within compass of the loth
article of the treaty of the 6th of Aug., 1642, we understand not. And certainly
his fault at the time of taking this town Irom him, either was not apprehended
so heinous, as some do since call it, or the indulgence great which was used
towards him in permitting him to abide in the Castle with one hundred of his
men, in quartering the rest of his regimt. near Belfast, and suffering him to
dispose of his stock without contradiction. And when he would remove, in
allowing him to depart hence to Dublin avowedly when he made no such con-
dition for himself, but was at the pleasure of those that had both him and the
town in their possession. We cannot but observe that this gentleness was more
by many degrees than is usually afforded to rebels ; or otherwise, that his
offence at that time was not such as to be a sufiicieni ground or colour for
taking, much less for keeping, the town, and making such conclusions as are
now drawn from thence.

And the Commissioners conclude their paper by excusing Col.
Chichester, saying that if he did go to Dublin and join with Ormond,
that it ought to be considered how that his own town was wrested
from him, and how badly and treacherously he had been treated.

There was, however, a Captain John MacAdam in Colonel
Chichester's regiment, and his description of the capture of Belfast, as
given on oath on the 14th June, 1644, is preserved in the Library of
Trinity College, Dublin. It is entitled —

iJE examination of Captain John MacAdam, aged about 28 years or
thereabouls, taken before the Right Honourable James, Earl of Roscom-
mon, and Sir James Ware, Knt., &c., upon oath ministered by the Clerk of
the Council the 14 day of June, 1644.
Tlie said Captn. John MacAdam being duly sworn and examined sayeth,
that in the month of May last the foot company then commanded by the

Old Belfast.

Col. Arthur Chichester's regiment, being then (juartercd at
Stranmilles, within less than a mile of Belfast, and the examinant having
necessary occasion to repair to Belfast, left the charge of his company with one of
his sergeants, James {illegible], and he, the examinant, went to Belfast, where he
lodged that night. And he sayelh that early the next morning, one John Plunkel,
a gentleman, then of the examinant's foot company, came to the examinant's
chamber and told him that the foot company were broken, and that many of them
that were Covenanters had, by order of Major-General Monro, marched thai morn-
ing from Stranmilles to Belfast, with drums and colours flying, and that by like
orders from Major-General Monro they had that morning torn in pieces their
colours in the Market Place of Belfast. Whereupon the examinant, his chamber
window looking into the Market Place, ran immediatelyto his chamber window, and,
looking out and seeing one Captn. Kennedy, Captain of the Walch, in the Market
Place, the examinant called to (he said Captn. Kennedy, and taking notice to him
of the mutinous and disordered carriage of the examinant's said company, desired
the said Captn. Kennedy lo stay there until the examinant could get ready and go

to him. Whereupon the said Capin. Kennedy answered that it was to no purpose,
and that he would not do it, for that the said company had done so by order of
Major-General Monro, and that he, the same Captn. Kennedy, had seen and read
the said order under ihe hand of Major-General Monro, whereby it was appointed
that the said company should march with colours and drums as they did to Belfast,
and there openly in the Market Place to tear the colours of the examinant as
Captn. of the said company in Colonel Chichester's regiment. And that done, to
march immediately with the said company to Carrickfergus ; and, as the said
Captn. Kennedy then told the examinant, there was in the said order, signed by
Major-Genl. Monro, a clause requiring Colonel Home, who commanded Ihe
garrison at Belfast, to be aiding and assistant to the operation of the said order.

Monroe immediately after made a similar attempt to capture the
town of Lisnegarvy ; but finding that garrison on its guard, he
demanded a conference with LieuL-CoIonci Jones, then commanding

Monroe in Belfast, 1644. 61

there. Being firmly refused admittance except by main force, he

first blustered about his authority from England, then threatened to

seize all their cattle ; but at last, cooling down, he satirically wished

the garrison joy of their determination, and marched back to Belfast

On the fifteenth of August, 1646, Mr. Tobias Norrice was appointed,

by the Committee, Comissary at Belfast, and directed to proceed to

Chester with all speed, take possession of the arms and stores there,

and ship them to Belfast. His instructions from the Committee say

that he is —

To receive all arms, ammunition, clothes, and victuals which shall be sent
out of this Kingdom for relief of the British Army in Ulster, and consigned to
you, or otherwise brought to the stores there ; and to lay up, preserve, and
keep the same in safe storehouses and in good condition for the use of the said
Army. To issue out and deliver such arms, &c., to such persons and in such
quantities as the Commissioners of Parliament in the Province of Ulster may
direct.

The Commissioners for Ireland write to the Committee at Derby
House, from Dublin, on the 23rd of November, stating that the Earl
of Ormond had positively refused to treat on their terms, and that
they would now send on the ships, with a quorum of the Commis-
sioners, viz. : — Sir Robert King, Sir John Clotworthy, and Robert
Meredith, to Belfast, in charge of the forces, with ;^3,50O, part of the
;C5,000 with which they had been entrusted for the public service.
They also write to Holyhead and Chester, ordering the troops there
to be sent on to Belfast instead of Dublin.

The Commissioners arrived in Belfast Lough in the latter end of
November, and landed part of their men at Groomsport, part on the
Antrim side, and some, at first, they left on ship-board ; for the Scotch
absolutely refused to allow a man of the English army to enter
Belfast, but they did not dare to refuse entrance to the Commissioners.
On the first of December they write to Major-General Monroe, then
commanding at Carrickfergus, of their arrival after a very severe and
stormy passage, detail the sufferings of their men in the open fields,
and demand quarters for them in Belfast. Monroe, writing back the
same day, says : —

Touching quartering at Belfast, if you have an order from the Committee
of both Kingdoms for that effect to the commander-in-chief of that garrison, I
do not doubt but it will be readily obeyed by him, who must answer for his
deportment to the General of the Army, the Earl of Leven, if otherwise that
be wanting. I believe the Colonel will be loath to part with his garrison till
such time as he know of his Excellency's pleasure. For my part, be pleased
to know that my command over Col. Home's garrison cannot reach so far as
to put him from it, unless I were acquainted with the General's pleasure, being
more than I would answer for on my life and credit.

The Commissioners again write to Monroe, stating that their want
of horses alone prevents them from waiting on him in person, and telling
him how unsatisfactory it must be for Parliament if the forces which
they have sent hither should perish with cold for want of harbour in
any town, being kept from the same by persons serving in the same
cause.

62 Old Belfast.

Monroe replies that he is exceedingly sorry for the hardships of the
troops ; but " touching Belfast," he adds, " I protest to God I cannot
vary from what I have already declared without an express command
from the Earl of Leven, General to the Scotch Army in Ireland, for it
being contrary to the treaty that we should mix in quartering (if any
inconvenience should happen thereby, as the Lord forbid), the General
would call me to an account for the same, as he may do if I consent
to give up any of our garrisons without his knowledge. I intreat you
to rest satisfied, and not press me beyond my power." He thinks,
however, that the Commissioners may accommodate the soldiers with
such shelter as the poor country can afford among the British regi-
ments ; and adds that dispute and controversy will not fail to break
out and ensue if the forces are mixed with the Scotch regiments, who
will not willingly part with their quarters.

The Commissioners then, finding that they can do nothing with

Monroe, write to Col. Home, forwarding the letter by their own

secretary, as follows : —

At Belfast, 7th December, 1646.

We, the Commissioners sent from the Parliament of England, accordinjg^
to our Commission of the i6th of November, being commanded to direct the
forces to Belfast, and having upon our arrival acquainted Major-General
Monro with their being come to quarters in this place, that so the Parliamt.
might receive satisfaction, and their forces convenient shelter and accommo-
dation necessary for the preservation of their lives in this winter season, and
finding the answer returned to us in his letters unsatisfactory, withall import-
ing that his command over you in this place could not reach so far as to put
you from the same, We do therefore, by this, desire to know from you by
whose authority you have garrisoned this town, and that we may see what
order you have for keeping the same, and know your positive resolution
whether or no you will allow the forces directed hither by the Parliament, and
now landed, to be garrisoned in this town of Belfast, according to the direc-
tions of the Parliament of England. To which we desire your present answer
in writing signed by you.

On the 9th of December Col. Home replies to the Commissioners,
humbly craving their patience, and stating that he is but a servant of
the public sent hither by commission from his Majesty and the Com-
missioners of both Kingdoms, and concludes thus : — " So being en-
trusted with the keeping of the place, I cannot take upon me to garrison
any forces therein until I acquaint the State of Scotland, the which I
shall do with all possible diligence."

The Commissioners then draw up a restivit^ o{ the whole proceed-
ings respecting the surprisal of Belfast, and send it express by Lt.-Col.
Conelly to the Parliament and Estates of Scotland and the Earl of
Leven, Lord General of the Scotch Army. Connelly is instructed to
explain anything that might be required of him, and ordered to stop
no longer in Scotland than six days.

The Commissioners had landed three companies of Lord Foliot*s
regiment, which they wished to march at once to Londonderry.
Having obtained promises of aid and assistance from Monroe during
their march wherever Scotch troops were quartered, the three com-

Monroe in Belfast, 1644.

panics, under command of a Lieut-Col. Wclton, set out on the 9th of
December. Besides their letters of public import, the Commissioners
send private letters by Lt.-Col. Wclton, introducing him to Thornton,
Mayor of Derry, as a gentleman in whom they have every confidence.
But on the i6th of the same month they write again to Thornton,
ordering him immediately to make Lt.-Col. Welton, Capt. Cook,
Gabriel Leake, and an Elizabeth Hutchin prisoners, and to send them
to Belfast. They were also to procure testimony of Col. Welton being
married to Elizabeth Hutchin, or what else they can discover touching
his familiarity on the occasion of his bringing her into Ireland, which,
he being already married in London, is a great scandal to the
professors of religion.

ANCIENT SEAL OF LONDONDERRY.

Hook, Leake, and Hutchin receive passes to go to England on the
I of January, 1647, but Lt.-Col. Welton is still retained in prison, and
on the 8th a widow More and her servants at Bangor are examined
as a fresh evidence against him.

The Scotch being determined not to let the English troops into
Belfast, offered to surrender their quarters in Locale, then held by a
Col. Hamilton, and the Commissioners were obliged to accept the
offer, agreeing to pay in victuals £2$ per month to Col. Hamilton, being
the money he received from the quarters ; and to pay for hay, straw,
corn, repairs of houses, huts, and to the Scotch regiment as Bernard
Ward, John Echlin, and A. Stainton might appoint. Col. Home
engaging to respect and give the English constant communication
with their storehouses in Belfast. And on the 20th orders were sent
to the English troops to march to and take possession of Lecale, and
quarter themselves there in the most advantageous manner that they
can.

The Commissioners write off to Chester for spade shovels, pick-
axes, and other intrenching tools for Lecale, and ask Monroe for some
that he had been supplied with ; but he states that after the battle of
Benburb there was such a mania for making intrenchments that all his
tools were used up, and that, besides, they were very bad. They also
order the ship Rebecca to take round some iron guns to Strangford,

64 Old Belfast.

and to cruise off that place for the future, so that she may be in con-
stant communication with the forces at Lecale.

On the 31 of Deer, they also write a polite letter to Lady Clane-
boy at Killileagh, requesting that his Lordship's troop would give up
Dundrum Castle, as it was necessary for the security of the quarters
in Lecale that it should be held by the English.

On the 8 of January an answer was received from the Scotch
Estates. It had been delivered to Col. Connelly on the last day of
December, but he did not arrive in Belfast till ten o'clock on the night
of the eighth. They say that as their Commissioners are now at
London treating for the surrender of Belfast, they cannot stultify
them by giving up the town now ; but they have written to Monro to
quarter his army as* closely as possible for the accommodation of the
English forces, and to allow them the use of houses in the town for
stores and magazines.

On the same day they gave an authority to Lieut.-Col. John
Hewetson to take possession of the manor or lordship of Newcastle,
in the County of Down, lately belonging to Sir Connor Magenis, now
in actual rebellion, and to hold it in custodiavi under the parliament of
England, paying £^ yearly for the same, and all the usual assessments
and taxes. (Pinkerton MSS.)

^be {parliament ant) Belfast, 1645*

Sir Robt. Kinc, one of the Commissioners of Ulster, presented this Paper
TO THE Committee from the Rest of the Commissioners, presented to
them, 6th November, 1645.

In the beginning of the Rebellion, Sir James Montgomery quartered himself and regi-
ment with his troop in Lecale, which was able to have entertained two regiments if it
had been well governed. But the said Sir James, not minding the manage of the work,
procured secretly quarters upon my lord Claneboy's lands, and made the country believe
that there was such necessity of his regiment in the Ardes, and other places thereabouts,
and that my Lord of Ards had written for him and his regiment, who did so indeed,
but by the said Sir James' procurement, which will appear by the testimony of Capt.
Maxwell if you call him to it, and so left Lecale to the benefit of the rebeU and the out-
running of the inhabitants. The said Sir James thereafter went to Parliament for arrears
to his regiment, but what he received for his regiment he converted to his own use,
save only clothes, who, when he returned home, the army being upon the field, who both
had done good service, and was going on the same, he so devised and withdrew my Lord
Montgomery and Sir William Stewart, and Sir Robert Stuart and others of the Colonels,
Jrom the service, and went to Dublin and joined in a Cessation with the rebels, and at his
return commanded his regiment to join in the same, who refused and would not adhere to
him, notwithstanding of many threatening, and not long after some of his Captains being in
Downpatrick perceived a stranger, and asked what was his name, from whence he came, who
would not give any perfect answer, and they hearing that he spent much and appeared to be
a suspected person, did take him, and brought him to Portaferry, and there Sir James con-
ferred with him secretly, and when he was commanded with a keeper, Sir James desired to
let him go ; but they refused and sent him to the General Major, who could have no
evidence against him, but afterwards Sir James being with his Lieut. Col. and others of his
officers, told them that his name was M'Donnell, and that he was carrying a commission
from the King and the rebels to Montrose for the setting of the bloody wars afoot in Scotland,
and said he knew who carried the Commission over. This you may have upon the testi-
mony of Capt. Maxwell, and Capt. Wachop and others of the Captains, viz., Major Keeth
and Capt. Wachop, by also about the time the Covenant was sworn in Ireland.

Belfast Trade, &c., 1646-48.

Belfast ?^ra^e, &c, 1646*48.

The Committee, on the 6th of Aug^ust, 1646, license one Thomas Limbumer to export
to Carrickfergus, free of duty, cloth, serge, stockings, whalebone, bodices, silk, ribbons,
black & coloured hats, hoods, buttons, points, haberdasher's ware, to the value of j£^300 or
thereabouts, to be sold for the use of the army & the poor inhabitants in that wasted
country.

On the 17th of September they also license John Stewart & Archibald Moor, merchants
of Belfast, to import from Liverpool, free of duty, several trunks of haberdashery ware,
with silks, buttons, & trimmings for suits of clothes ; two fardels containing hardwares,

skins, & pasteboard ; 8 bags of hops, one box of drugs, one runlet of oil, I cwt of cotton
for candle-wicks, 12 hats, and 4 dozen pound of whalebone ; two fardels of wool cards, 16
ells of hoUands, & six pieces of buckram, for the use of the army and the poor inhabitants
in that wasted country.

On the same day they also license one James Maxwell to transport from Liverpool, to
Carrickfergus, Belfast, or Bangor, duty free, 25 l)ags of hops, 8 pieces of cloth, 12 pieces of
stuff, & £y> worth of haberdashery ware for trimming suits of clothes for the use of the
army and the poor inhabitants of that wasted country.

Instructions to Mr. Norris, Commissary at Belfast, to proceed to West
Chester with all haste, and take Possession of the Arms, &c., and
Ship them to Belfast, /j* August^ 1646,

You are to receive all arms, ammunition, clothes, and victuals which shall be sent out
of this Kingdom for relief of the British Army in Ulster and consigned unto you, or shall
otherwise be brought to the Stores there, and you are to lay up, preserve, and keep the same
in safe store houses and in good condition for the use of the said Army. And you are to
return certificates from time to time unto such Commissaries or other persons as shall
consign such arms, ammunition, clothes, victual, or other provisions unto you with the
contents and conditions in which you received them. And you are to send duplicates of
such your certificates to this Committee, that a true account may be kept of what is applied
to the Army, by whom, and in what manner.

You are to issue out and deliver such arms, ammunition, clothes, victual, and other
provisions as shall come within your charge and custody, unto such persons and in such
quantities and proportions for the use of the Army or any particular regiments, companies,
troops, officers, or soldiers thereof as the Commissioners of Parliament now residing in the
Province of Ulster, or any two of them, shall by their warrants direct during their residence
as Commissioners in those parts, or as you shall receive further directions from the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, or any other appointed by the Parliament of England to have the
government of the military affairs in that Province.

You are to observe and follow all other instructions and directions which shall be given
you by this Committee for the well managing of the trust reposed in you and discharge
thereof. And to give such advertisements from time to time of the state of the stores under
your charge as may be for the providing of new supplies when occasion shall require in the
particulars that shall be requisite.

Signed by Sir Jo. Temple, Sir J. Clotworthy, Sir Greg. Norton, Sir Walter Earl.

A Confirmat. of a Division by the Committee's Orders of 23 July last.

The proportion of arms and clothes sent to Ulster are to be distributed amongst the 10
Regiments of foot and 17 troops of horse of the British Army, igth October, 1646.

To each regiment.
Matchlock musquets ...
Firelock musquets
rixes ... .•• ••.

Swords and belts

To each troop.
Pair of pistols with holster
Saddles and furniture ...
Swords and belts

240

120

240

14
29

To each regiment.
Barrels of powder

To each troop.
Barrels of pistol powder

I'o each regiment.
Tons of match
To each troop ...

To each regiment.
I ton of musket bullets.
To each troop, in lb. wt. pistol bullets.

2
I

Old Belfast.

! were distributed among the 4
Ld. Ards' i^. of foot, Ld. Cluiebojr's, Col. Conway's, and Sir James Montgomery.

Ld.of Ards.
Claneboy's.
Col. Conway
Sir f . Mongomery.
Sr J. Clotwonhy.

17 troops ai
Col. Hill's reg. consisting of 5 troops. .
Col. Conway's troop. 1

Ld. Ards' troop.
Clandel)oy'i,

Sit Wm. t
Sir R. Slu
Ld. FoUqI

Sir R. Stuart's.
Sir W. Stuart's.
Cap. Geo. Montgon
Cap. Dudly Phillips

Sir J. Montgomery.
Sir J. Clotworlhy's.
Capl. Oolworthy's.

The provisions to be delivered 10 the forces by the Commissioner at Belfast as they shall
think best for the service, having r^ard to the necessity of the place where quartered and
preservation of the country.

Tons of Salt, 33I.

fiows of Meal, 6,666).
Suits of Clothes, 4,615.
-/gli Octeitr, 1646.

Agreed and divided by Will Cole, Ja. Trayle, Arthur Hill, and Geo. Rawdon ;
Ja. Claneboy, Ro. Hannay, Rubt. King, Gentlemen of Ulster.

By the Cemmiisieiur^ Gmientmenl of Uhter, the Cttsloms af several ports in Ulster ta

defray public chargn.

" These are to authorise you to receive the customs of the several ports of Carrickfeixns,

Belfast [not as yet disposed of by ui), Bangor, Donaghadee, and Strangford, together with

what they are in arrears at Michaelmas l^l, to empower youi occasions about the public

stores and to continue the receiving of the same until you shall have further order to the

contrary, keeping a just account thereof in writing, that you may be answerable for the same

to those the Parliament shall intrust ; and the officers of the customs of the said ports are

hereby required to pay the same unto you every quarter as they were accustomed, of which

they may not fail at their perils. And for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given at

Bel£ui, 33 of Oitabir 1646. " Arthur Annesley.

"To Tobias Norris, Gent., William Eeale,"

By the Commissioners for Ireland.
" Whereas the Commissioners formerly in this Province had given power to Mt. Tobias
Norris for receiving the customs of the several ports above mentioned for the use of the
public service latrusted with him, commanding the officers of the said customs to make
payment every quarter to him, We do hereby confirm the same, and do strictly rtquiie the
said officers (o make due payment thereof accordingly as they will antwer the contrary at
their perils. Given at Bellast, jo Veer. , i6f6. 1

" Rob. Meredith, Robt. King, Jho. Clotwobthy."

Belfast Trade, &c., 1646-48. 67

James Maxwell, of Carrickfergus, May^ '^47%

Had license to embark from the ports of Chester or Liverpool to Belfast or Carrick-
fergus for the use of the Army there, Twelve pieces of cloth, thirty pieces of stuff with
haberdasher's ware fitting for trimmings. Twenty dozen of scythes, three score dozen of
sickles, one barrel of nails, and twenty bags of hops, custom free.

John Clugston, merchant, had license to export to Belfast, Twelve bags of hops. Two
packs of broad cloth. Two packs of stuff, Two packs of small ware, lo Dozen of hats, and a
bundle of bridle reins, to the value of ;f 300.

Patrick Smith, 6 bags of hops, one fardel of stuffs, one fardel of bridles and other
furniture for horses, one fardel of small ware as haberdasher's ware, two dozen of hats, one
box with combs, and a small cask of tobacco, in the ship the Jonas of Kirkaldy.

Gilbert Eccles, from London to Carrickfergus, 1648, four packs of clothes and stuffs
containing also buttons, silk, buckram, bays, taffeta, hollands, stockings, laces, paper, paste-
board, gloves, four barrells raisins and glasses. Ten bags hops, six boxes of tobacco pipes, a
small cask of cards for wool, two chests with glasses, two hampers of hats, and some
Crooked lane ware, six doz. of scythes, two packs of sickles, two barrells of rice, and a
bundle, of value of jf 300 or thereabouts.

George Booth's Remonstrance about the want of Carts for the Army

IN 1647.

I am given to understand that there is provision of carts made to come over here. God
grant they prove not useless here when they come, for I fear they will prove too heavy of
themselves without any load for our small garrons. My Ld. of Strafford sent some store of
them over here, but we could never make use of them, but of the irons of them. Therefore,
except there be good strong draught horses or oxen provided for them, & skilful men to drive,
they will be endangered to be lost with the provisions in them.

FIRST ESTABLISHMENT OF A POST TO SCOTLAND AND

ENGLAND, 1648.

The sending of forces from Scotland created a new & increased intercourse with Ireland
& the exigencies of the rebellion demanding a quick & continual means of intelligence, led to
the establishment of a post between the north of Ireland, Edinburgh, & London. England
being more interested m the matter than Scotland agreed to bear all the extra expense, &
the English Parliament and Scotch Commissioners concluded to make Carlisle the starting-
point from the English side. From Carlisle the route and postmasters were — Annan, twelve
miles, Mark Lock ; Dumfries, twelve miles, Robert Glencorse ; Steps of Or, twelve miles,
Andrew M'Min ; Gatehouse of Fleet, twelve miles, Ninian Mure ; Pesthouse, eleven miles,
George Bell ; Kirk of Glenluce, thirteen miles, John Baillie ; & from thence to Portpatrick, ten
miles, John M*Caig. The persons named were considered the only ones fit for the employment
"as being inn-keepers and of approved honesty in those parts." Every thing being ready,
on the 27th September, 1648, the English Parliament was called upon to ratify the arrange-
ments & supply "John McCaig, postmaster in Portpatrick," with a post boat, and the
demand was at once complied with. The intermediate stations between Portpatrick and
Edinburgh were Ballantrae, Drumbeg, Ayr, Kilmarnock, Glasgow, Kilsyth, Linlithgow.

The Committee at Derby House.

"To Colonel Monk,

*• We have formerly written you concerning Belfast, which the Scots ought not to
have had at all. And we again desire you to use all the means in your power to put the sd.
town of Bel£EUt in the possession of the Parlmt. of England, and you will take care that

^ Old Belfast.

none land ia Ireland out of Scotland, oi any of those that are in England in aims against the

Comonwealth may come over hither. We have wiillea lo Capt. Clark to ply up and down

the coast to prevent them, xg '1"£-, 164S."

They write on 5 Septr.— Heard of the overthrow given lo the Duke of Hamilton, want

to know what Scotch regiments in Ireland were concerned with it. Monk la inspect atld

inquire-
To Co!. Monk,— They have not a cypher ; have written of Ihe whole affair lo CoL

Jones; please give him a meeting, and consult on the matter together. 22 Siptr., 164S.

Col. Monk appointed Governor of Caiiickfergus ; great praise for taking the towns fiom

the Scots, 4 Oclober, 1648 ; beg of him lo recommend a lit person to be governor of Itelfasi,

and return us your opinion by the lirsi opportunity.

Write to Coot and Monk staling that many under them in the service of the Parliament

had treacherously invaded England under Hamilton, lo be careful casting officers. " We

shall only add this cauliott, that in the exertion of his power you will be careful to do it so

thai when you attempt it you may be able lo carry it through without afront,"

Some advantage might be made by giving the Irish protection to bow and plow within

his quarters. 18 Nmir., 164S.

The Webi;lv Convevancb of Lettbrs feom Ireland, 1648.

On every Monday, precisely at noon, a post shall go hence from Dublin, to be at
Groomesport on Thursday, where the passage shall be always ready, the wind serving. 10
depart with the morning's tide, to be al Edinburgh by Monday noon following, which shall
be the time of departure of the post from thence Tor I.ondon by way of \'tnV, and precisely
to be at I.ondon on Saturday si night. And from London back again on the same days.
To wit —on Monday at noon from London by Vork, lo lie ai Edinburgh on the Saturday
evening. And on Monday noon from Edinburgh to Dublin, if the weather hinder not,
before the neiit Monday following.

The deliverer of the letter or letters in Dublin payeth nothing, hut the receiver in
England or Scotland is 10 pay nine pence per letter, or two shillings and sixpence per ounce
if packets.

The deliverer of the letter or letters in England or Scotland is to jay three pence per
letter, and the receiver in Ireland sixpence. And if packets, proportionably '/i of two
shillugs and sixpence an ounce in England and Scotland, and the rest io Ireland by the

Four posts Of messengers shall be appointed lo go betwixt Dublin and Edinburgh on
foot and horse as they can conveniently, and from Edinburgh lo London by the ormnary
way of Ihe post night and day.

H "Relation of several Servicer,

At tfu wMch I was present in the Wars of Ireland, from ihe year 164^ until
j6s3. By Major Meredith.

j BOUT two days after the storming & taking of
Drogheda in the year 1649, the Lord Lieut, sent Col.
Chidley Coote, with his own & Lieut. General Jones's
Regiment of Horse & Col. Castle's Regiment of
Foot, to possess Dundalk. Those Regiments, having
marched all night, arrived at Dundalk the next
morning, which they found the enemy had newly
quitted, so that, without farther trouble, there was left
there as Governor Col. Ponsonby [the Major to Col. Coote] with his
troop & some few foot, and the Regiments, both Horse and Foot,
marched immediately that day back to the Camp, which was then in
the fields near Drogheda. About a day or two after, the same party,

A Relation of several Services.

together with Col, Venables' Regiment of Foot & two troops of
Dragoons, were sent under the command of Col. Venables to reduce
some part of the North, and for that purpose guns for battering, &
victuals, were sent to attend him by sea in a Man of War. The first
place they marched to was Carlingford, and the same day the party
came thither the ships came into the Harbour, and passed the Fort,
which lies in the mouth of it, without any prejudice, though they
made several shots at her as she passed. That night we encamped
on the South side of the town in fields near adjoining, & the ship cast
anchor near the Castle, The next day preparations were made to
land our Guns, & to raise a battery, in order to which guards were
placed near the Castle ; but before we either landed Guns, or made
our 'battery, the enemy came to a parley, and the Castle was sur-
rendered unto us on Articles,

The next day after the surrender of CarHngford, Col. Venables
took Lieut General Jones's Regiment of Horse, and marched by the
water-side under the mountains unto the Newry, to summons that
place. We passed the River at a Ford about a mile below the Newry ;
the remainder of the party were left with Col. Coote to come the
other side of the Mountains with the carriages, the way we marched
not being passable for carriages. The same evening, we came to the
Newry and faced it, the Governor came out and treated, & so we
concluded that the Horse were admitted into the town, and marched
through it to pass the bridge, to quarters on the other side of the
water where was most conveniency, & the next day the Castle was
surrendered on Articles.

We rested at the Newry till the rest of the party came up, which
wa3 three days after, in which time there came a Cornet, & two or
three more from Lisnegarvie, who assured us that if we could advance
we should have that place surrendered unto us. Upon which invita-
tion, by advice of the officers, we advanced from the Newry, having
left an Ensign & some few men in the Castle, The first night we lay

Old Belfast.

at Dromore, sixteen miles from the Newry, and encampedin a
South-west of the said town, by the highway side, well enclosed with
hedges, not having any intelligence of any enemy being near us. But
about three hours after we were encamped, there came advertisement
from Dundalk that Col. Trevor was attending us with a considerable
party of Horse, and resolved to fall on us before we got to the Newry.
Upon which intelligence, orders were sent that the Horse should draw

into the Foot quarters, which was a field on the outside of which the
Horse lay ; but the orders being cursorily given, & no alarum general
in the Camp, there was but little notice taken of them. For I cannot
tell, whether through the negligence of him that carried the orders, or
those that gave them, but certain truth it is that they were never
known to half the Horse (& the Dragoons never heard of it at all],
which omission had like to have been our total ruin, & was the only
cause of the greater part of the loss we afterwards sustained. The
enemy, according to the intelligence, having coasted us all that day

A Relation of several Services. 71

on the left hand, had by their scouts, which they kept on the tops of
the hills [whilst their party kept the bottoms], certain intelligence of
our motions, & were so confident [as I have since heard] that some
of them came into the outside of the quarter & viewed the order of
our quartering, & afterwards returned & gave an account of it to their
party. Upon which the enemy resolved to attempt our quarters,
which accordingly they did, an hour before day, the next morning, &
we having scouts abroad [the strength of our guard being in the
quarters] the enemy found no resistance, but followed the scouts into
the guard, who at once had received the alarum, & the enemy, they
pursuing the scouts so close that they came to the guard as soon as
the scouts. So that with very small or no dispute they routed the
guard & pursued them through the quarter, which so sudden rout of
the guard had the like influence on all the Camp, being in no order to
receive an enemy or defend themselves, judged of their own condition
by that of their fellows, and fell to a total rout. Which had never
been recovered, had it not pleased God that the situation of the place
was such, being surrounded with a very strong hedge on most parts,
& a bog behind it, that our men could not readily find how to get
away, the morning proving extraordinary dark, by which means
likewise it pleased the Lord that the enemy were not sensible of their
own advantage, but stood with the gross of their Horse, which was
about 400, on a hill near. They, judging by the small resistance
which they had heard made, that we had been totally routed by their
first party, & that those parties would keep us from rallying, that they
should have nothing to do when it was day but to pick up a scattered
party wholly strangers to the country. And this I know to have been
their opinion of us by the relation of some of their chief officers since.
But the same Providence that guided and guarded us, misguided
them. For the former party, who were ordered in case they got in to
the quarters to stay there & not pursue, but to keep us from rallying,
contrary to their orders followed the pursuit of the guard, & so left
us, though all dispersed, to recollect ourselves, & the day breaking, we
sooner were sensible of our own miscarriages than the enemy could
be, who were some distance from us, sounding levitts for joy of their
supposed victory. We, perceiving ourselves in great disorder, made
the greater haste to unite again. Very suddenly we had rallied about
40 or 50 horse, which being drawn up on a small rising ground which
was in the field, those that had before hid themselves in holes and
ditches immediately took up their arms again & repaired to us. And
before it was so light as the enemy could discern what we were, we
had rallied 4 or 5 more small bodies of Horse, & a handsome body of
400 Foot. And as if every one had been ashamed of what was before
done, there was no other voice among the soldiers but to redeem their
past miscarriage by presently fighting, which forwardness of theirs, I
confess, was a good argument to engage the enemy, & therefore
went to the Commander in Chief, & declared unto him the probability
of good success if we went out & fought, but I was answered he
would not engage but on the ground we stood, with which answer I

72 Old Belfast.

returned to my chai^, & the soldiers still desiring very much an
engagement, I went again to the Commander in Chief, and desired,
at least, he would permit me to take a small party of Horse & advance
towards the enemy, to search a tent of Major Villcrs, wherein there
was a fortnight's pay for the Lieut. General's Regiment ; telling him
besides it would be a countenance to some who lay hid between us &
the enemy to repair to us. Upon which I was permitted to take 40
or 50 Horse & advance towards the enemy, which I did, & was no
sooner within half musket shot of them, where we drew up, but they
immediately sent a good party to charge us. But it pleased God to
order that business so, that after a long and sharp dispute between
these two parties only, that we routed them, & followed them so
close that their main body took the rout likewise, so that that party,
together with some more of the Lieut. General's Regiment, which
came with CapL Casack & Lieutenant Thomson, we had the pursuit
of them unto the Bann water towards Newry, being 7 miles. In the
pursuit we recovered all our prisoners & two standards which they
had taken of ours, killed many of them, 8l took many prisoners,
among whom were two Captains of Horse &. other inferior officers.
The rest of the Horse were employed in the pursuit of one Major
Chatfield, who was drawn up in the town with 100 Horse, & had
prisoner with him Major Viller and Captain Usher, both of whom in
the pursuit were recovered, & the officer that had the charge of them,
a Cornet, came into us. Thus it plea.sed the Lord to disperse that
cloud which threatened us with so great a storm, with which
undoubtedly we had been destroyed, had not God been our mighty
helper & defender.

As soon as we returned from the pursuit, the party began their
march unto Lisnegarvie. into which they were very welcomely
received that night, the party quartering in the fields near to it And
next day, with the addition of one troop of horse, which were of that
country, & there joined with us under the command of Major Bruffe,
we marched unto Belfast, & faced that place, which was within 3 or
4 days surrendered to us on Articles. About ten days after the
surrender of the town, Lieut. General Jones's Regiment marched back
unto Dublin, & what afterwards was done in those parts Sir Theophilus
Jones can best give you an account of, being there with his Regiment
from a little while after we came away, until all action was finished in
those parts.

(In a Eelter from Wm. Meredylh to Dr. Henry Jones giving an account of hU
services, June, 1656, Jones, it setms, being about to publish an account of the rebellion.)
(Pinkemn MSS.)

Zhe (Commonwealtb an& tbe flortb of 3relan&.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PRIVY COUNCIL, DUBLIN, &c.,
1 651-1660.

(Co/HeJ/ram MSS. Birmiusham Totatr, aiid TrinUy Celllge, Dublin, by W. Pitikertiin.)

Letter from tht Comi

\l Bel/ail to

I. Gen. Ludlcr.v, z Aug-, idjr.

In thcit underlakings lo carry on the great wnrk

s iheieof which you have lieen partakers of id

It hath iileased God 10 open a way for uur forces in

'ife. About S03 horse and foot of them went over

engaged with Sir John Browne's Brigade, where,

-'-'- "[r John

" Honoured Sirs,

" The Lord in mercy gives
his manifold appearances with his seivi
he haih called them unto. The exoer
your own person doth much rejoit
Scotland 10 pass over the water i
about the 17th of July, and on t! „ „

after a sharp encounter, the Lord gave the enemy a defeat, about 2.000 slain.
Browne, their Major General, and many other commanileis and 703 soliliecs taken p
and 50 colours taken. The Lord endue us with a frame of spirit suitable to his doii^
towards us. Mr. Lour (?) is sentenced 10 lose his head, but reprieved by the I'arliament
upon the ministers' petition on his behalf till the 15th of this month. Some small disasters
the Lord is pleased to mix with these great mercies lo teach us to know where our strength
lies. The Hindc frigate is cast away near Carrie kfergus. Capt. Sherwine that commanded
It and 51 of his men escaped and about II jieiished. We hope the guns and tackling will be
recovered. Forty foot and ten horse in convoying bread to Capt. Venables were, at the

Moyrie, between D '" " ' *' ■"-' ' -t ^.. .^. ^..■.. .•

Fews. Truly, Sir, your company is

Btl/asI, 3 August, i6st-

Venables was then in the field, 1,300 foot and 500 horse, with the intention to capturing
the slror^ fort of Ballinecary in Cavan, and to settle some garrisons in the bowels of the
enemy at Belturbet and other places.

A depot of provisions made for Venables at Trim, Duodtlk being visited with the
plague.

/Wzy Coumil, wrilingto Venailcs, Sept., l6Si, say: —

" We have gotten a very good minister, lately come out of England, whom we have
agreed to send unto your quarters about Lisnegarvy and Belfast ; his name is Mr. Weekes ;
we do believe you will be pleased with him."

THE COUNCIL AT DUBLIN.

Ta Col. Veiuibles, Col. Bamnv, and Mr. Tiinolky Taylor.

" We have sent Mr. Wyke, a minister of the Gospel and a man of meek spirit,
so hr as we can discern, to preach the Gospel in the North. To whom we desire you to
give all due encour.igement, so far as you lind him useful in the work of the Gospel. And
because there is a great scarcity of persons fitly qualified to be sent out to pieach to the
people, we desire yuu to countenance and encourage frequent Christian meetings both
publickly nnd privately to confer with each other al)out Gospel duties, and to declare unto
one another their exjicrience of the Lord's love and gracious dealings to them, to exercise
their gifts in prayers and eihortotions for the refreshing and edifying one another in love and
in knowledge of the Lord Jesus, avoiding vain and unnecessary questions and disputations
which administer strire, that the Lord Jeaus may thereby be glorified, his name be exalted,
and the present defect of instruments in some measure supplied. All which we leave to
your Christian consideration to practise ns the Lord shall lead out your spirits, 4 October,

^Af^riiac DuBIinne \

h^-^jl

Duilin, 4 Octebtr, tbsi.—Cotinly Anirim charged \uith a monthly asussment af^ijoo;

Down, C'l'SO- ^o •naiiilain Ihi army andfarcet thirt.

THE ASSESSMENT FOR ULSTER.

excepting the Barony of

The Commonwealth and the North of Ireland. 75

Antrim ... iC'.S«>

1 County Louth ... ^£330

Down ... i,i$a

Londonderiy ... 150

Don^al ... 700

Fermanagh ... iy>

Aimagh ... 350

Tyrone ... 100

Cavl^ ... 800

for 6 months, counting 38 days to the m

lonth, on all persons in cities and country according

to their estates, slocks, &c., all property

; defaults le\7ed off the whole barony.

II Nov. , i6ji. — To Col. Hill tm asking advice.
" We usually allow the wises and children of delinquents some pail of the sequestrated
«3lale, not exceeding a fifth part, provided that they he under protection, and Ihni their
portion be liahle to contribution e(|U!illy with others, and we leave it free with you to grant
the same allowances where you shall find just and reasonable grounds for it. As for the
paiticular persons you mention, whose necessitous conditions require the like relief, we are
willing they and theii families should be looked upon as capable thereof, whether they leave
wives or not. But in all cases where sequestrations are actually made, the personal estates of
delinquents as well as the teal ought to be sequestrated. For Col. Conway's estate, v.*e shall
do him right on his petition, when he appears before us ; but in the meantime the sequestra-
tion of the Lord Conway's estate is to be prosecuted. As for those that plead particular
articles for exemption from common charges and contributions (as Col. Trevor does), we
desire you to examine them and certify as how you Itnd them. As to the supplying of
defects of contributions of wasted Counties out of Counties that are solvent, our meaning is
very much misunderstood therein to our prejudice. The thing we had in our eye, and most
immediately in,our care, was the making of a certain provision for the forces, without which
the Biitish quarters cannot subsist, and not favouring the Irish ; which may easily appear by
the power given to the Commissioners of the Revenue to assess and levy what is assessed
upon the Irish quarters so far as the same can be levied. And we conceive that those defects
of the Irish counties with the increase of the assessment will not amount to so much upon
the British as the ease they have by taking off dry quarter and other irregular taxes. We
[Hty the nakedness of the soldiers, but they have clothes coming over from England, as we are
aisored by Mr. Kowe's last letter, and yet in the meantime you shall do well to furnish them
with shoes and stockings during their instant necessity, which must be defrayed by the
excise or some other way. We have no more at present, but remain."
Dublin, 2S 0(1., 165 1.

The Couniil, writing to Cot. Barrmii, one of the Cominisiionirs of Revenut at Belfast, say: —
"Since you yourself and Col. \'enahles are in the Commission with the rest, it will be
much in your own power to see that the contributions be as well paid in Ulster as it is in
other Provinces, and that the forces be in equal condition with others ; so that no discouia(e'
ment ought to arise to you or the soldiers under your command in that respect. Col.
Venabtes proposed to us the destroying and burning of thai corn which the enemy in Cavan
and other places have reserved for seed the next year, and he ofiers it as a fit means to
distress and so force the enemy from his bogs and fastnesses. But indeei) we dare not at this
distance interpose our advice in mattecE ol that nature, nor will we give any order in it.
Vou best understand how feasible the business is, and how little haiard there will l>e wasting
your men, or exposing your other quarters to the incursions of the enemy in attempting it,
and therefore to your further deliberations we must leave it."
Dublin, II Nov., i6ji.

Ill a litter to the Comiaiisioncrs of Revenue at Belfast the Council lay : —
" For the nameless superannuated Scotch minister you write of, who had £la allowed

him the last year, if the man be Godly, and you apprehend bini a lit object of charity, it is

left to you to allow him for this year what you shall conceive fitting."
9 Deer. , t6s', Dublin.

76 Old Belfast.

// Decr,^ 16$ T, To Commissioners at Belfast on complaints of Colonels and want of forage.

** We think fit to let you know that Ulster must bear its own burthen, and if the forces
there be more than you can pay, a fewer number must serve for the defence of that country
and carrying on the publick service.

" E. Ludlow.

" Miles Corbet. Joseph Jones. John Weaver.'*

Council of StcUe write to Commissioners of Revenue at Belfast^ 12 Feb,^ i6j2.

((

The Isle of Man being now in the obedience of the Parliament, and such parts of
Scotland as are in p>ossession of the Parliamentary forces, may be freely traded to in all
lawful commodities ; but in regard of the present scarcity, no wheat or other sort of grain or
victual must be exported. To be careful of suspicious persons with defective passes from
Scotland, but to have a special regard to preserve any articles made by any person in
command for the service of the Commonwealth of England. The capitulation made with
Balcarras can scarcely extend to leave to come to Ireland."

To carry on the next summer's campaign in Ulster, there are required —

154 Tons Meal.
50 Tons Cheese.
4000 Complete suits, consisting of cassocks, breeches, shirts,
shoes, and stockings.
400 Tents.
lOCXD Bibles.
100 Barrels of powder.
15 Tons of match.
5 Tons of bullets.
1000 Pikes.
200 Pistols.
300 Firelocks.
600 Muskets.
200 Carabines.
100 Hand Grenadoes.
100 Spades.
50 Shovels.
50 Pickaxes.
12 Iron Crows.
4 Iron Tunnes.
2 Ropes to mount ordnance.
600 Sacks.
200 Kettles.

The pay of the forces for Ulster was ;£"700 per month, the revenue only bringing in
;£'240 ; the balance of £^(>o was respited in the soldiers' pay, till Cavan, Monaghan, and
Tyrone be reduced and brought under contribution. In Ulster — Tyrone, Monaghan,
Fermanagh, and Armagh wholly waste, yielding no contribution or profit.

** It is ordered that the Commissioners of Revenue in the Province of Ulster do take care
that no Minister within the said Province, except such as have or shall take the Engagement
enjoined by the Parliament, be permitted to enjoy the l>enefit of any tithes or of any
ecclesiastical promotions or maintenance from the State." 18 Aug.^ 16^2.

N,B, — The Engagement was simply — To be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of
England, as the same is now established, without a King or a House of Lords.

4th Sep., 1 6s 2,

" We are creditably informed that one Cunningham, a minister at Broad Island, hath
been observed to use a passage in his prayer to this effect — * Lord, wilt thou be pleased to
give the whip into our hands again, and thou shalt see how we will scourge these enemies of
thy people.' And that the Scotch Ministers do preach as violently against the Parliament
as ever. And likewise that their gentry do meet together in great numbers, and are very
close in their consultations. We earnestly desire you would look narrowly into these things,
and you will use some course for the timely prevention of such numerous and tumultuous
assemblies of disaffected and discontented people. The Scotch gentry have their meetings
by 50 or 60 at a time, sometimes under the pretence of hunting. There was lately a great
meeting of them at Ballymena, where they were quickly housed and not one to be seen in
the streets."

The Commonwealth and the North of Ireland. 77

To tkt Cammissioiurs of Uhlir. Dated KUieniiy, joth Oclater, t6s>-

" You are lo allow every sotdki as. 6d. in money and seven pounds of oatmeal or lix
pounds of biscuit weekly, or, lor want of oatmeal and biscuit, eight pounds of btead. And
what ihe oatmeal, biscuit, or bread costs the Slate over and above nine pence weekly, the
first penny, adding thereunto the charge of freight, carriage to Ihe stores, field, or garrisons,
or any kind of waste, you are to chaj^e it on the soldiers' arrears, that the same may be
discounled accordingly. And i( Ihe soldier provides his own bread, you may, instead of his
weekly allowance, pay him nine pence per week, if you consider it to be to the advantage of
the service.

" You may, notwithstanding Ihe lale proclamation prohibiting the exporlalloD of cattle,
4e., give licenses for the exportation of hides into England only, and butler, taltow, salmon,
herril^, and all sorts of lish into England, or any other place, having always regard that
thereby those commodities be not heightened in their prices to the prejudice of the soldier*
and the poor inhabitants.

" All goods exported into England or Scotland must pay excise, salmon and all other
fish only excepted.

" You are no! to set the Commonwealth lands for above one year, without special order

" Yoa are to proceed against Popish priests and schoolmasters according lo such direc-
tions as you will find in the qualifications.

o the directions formerly given you concerning the Scottbh Ministers, and such as
■ -' ■ o other rules than

" You are not lo suffer any of the officers of the Scottish nation thai have botne aims
againsl the Parliament, and refuse to subscribe the Engagement, to live within your qiwrters,
: be permitted to be of Juiys but such as are willing to subscribe the

" Whereas you desire to know whether (he protected Irish, thai have lived within your
Passes these three or four years past, and paid contributions, should be liable lo make
lestilutioD for the robberies committed by their kindred In other counties ; we must and do
M*eive the delermination of such cases to the Commissioners for Administration of Justice
to proceed therein according to Rules of Justice.

"You are to allow all Prisoners that are not able to provide for themselves three pence
per Amy out of the Treasury.

" We have ool leisure to send you the Rules for repairing of British losses, with such
olhn laws and declarations as have been made for Ihe Settlement of this Dominion ; but as
God aflbrda us opportunity, you may expect resolutions to these things. But conceiving it
to be of importance lo ihe settlement of the country, we have sent you enclosed powers to
aohcad the Cre^hts, wherein we pray your particular care in putting the same inlo execu-
tion, as yon shall find most conduceable to the service."

78 Old Belfast.

the scheme to transplant the scots from ulster, 1653.

Lbtters between the Commissioners in Ulster and the Government
IN Dublin.

'N Friday, the ist instant (April, 1653), we came
to Belfast, where we met Col. Hill, and that day
issued a summons for all such as had borne
arms against the Parliament in England, Scot-
land, or Ireland, and lived within our quarters
in that part of Ulster, to appear before us at
Carrickfergus on Wednesday following, to render
an account of their so living within the Parlia-
I mentary quarters, and of their affections and
- fidelities to the present Government.
On Saturday, the 2nd instant, being then at Carrickfergus, con-
sidering what to do with those who were to appear before us on
Wednesday following. Resolving, in regard of their great number,
not to commit any to prison, the several experiments which had been
fruitless in that kind, but to use all ways of gentleness and meekness
towards them : we concluding and unanimously agreeing, that there is
no visible expedient to preserve these parts in safety but by transplant-
ing all popular Scots into some other part of Ireland, and that it was
necessary immediately to put this in execution as to the most
dangerous of them ; and finding them sufficiently averse from the
Irish, we thought it would as well strengthen your hands against the
common enemy there as weaken your fears and lessen your charge in
these parts ; nevertheless, because we had no power to make such a
resolution but by the last article of our instructions, and because it
was necessarj', if this be practised, that yourselves appoint the place to
which they should be so transplanted, we did not think fit to publish
our thoughts in this till we should receive your honour's approbation
and direction concerning it, which we humbly beg with what speed
your greater affairs will admit In the meantime, we have heard what
they could offer us towards full satisfaction concerning their fidelity
and peaceable demeanour for time to come, and find them all desirous
we should trust to security by bond, which we can not think sufHcJent,
in r^ard that if they give us our friends to bo bound for them, they
will not scruple to leave them to be destroyed by us ; if our enemies,
we suppose such will revolt with them. So then we rather chose for
present security, till your pleasures might be known concerning
transplanting the most dangerous, to tender them the engagement,
which the greatest part of them have signed, but we cannot say out of
conscientious grounds ; the rest have part of them signed a negative
paper, which we send enclosed ; some others refuse that and this, and
will neither promise nor give bond not to disturb the present Govern-
ment: but we have not imprisoned them, in regard we do not at present
fear their power, and are not willing to let the rest (towards Deny
whom we have not yet called) see how far we mean to go.

The Commonwealth and the North of Ireland. 79

In our observation of the temper of this people, we find that they
are more or less perverse, according to the temper of their respective
ministers, and their being planted all together or mixed among
English and Irish, which are also further arguments to us for their
transplantation.

Touching the prevention of correspondence, we thought it necessary,
before we could make any resolutions thereupon, to view the sea coast,
which we have already done as far as Cushendun, near Fair Foreland,
the North E^ast point of Ireland, and find that there are landing-places
all along the coast, though not one good harbour, except Olderfleet
haven (which is as good as any in Ireland), and that in two hours they
may pass betwixt the headland of Cantyre and the coast of Ireland
between Glenarm and Fair Foreland, so that we judge it impossible
to prevent correspondence while the Scots are suffered to live along
the sea coast ; nevertheless, that we might do something towards it, we
have sent Captain Finicke*s company to seize all the boats upon the
coast, as also to discover and intercept correspondences, likewise sent
a letter into Scotland to the Governor of Air for his advice and con-
currence in this matter, and also given some other intimations which
we send enclosed.

We intend on Monday our journey towards Derry to try the
temper of men in those parts that so we may be fitted to give a
judgment on the whole, which we intend to do in all parts at one time,
according to the several capacities in which we find persons to be, in
order to the effectual doing of which, we humbly conceive it requisite
that those forces about Antrim, bordering on these parts, be in
readiness to attend anything that may occasionally fall out upon such
alterations, which may prove to be very little if the business be
secretly carried, but privacy in your debates of these things, and the
like care in the sure conveyance of your resolutions to us, will much
facilitate this work, which if discovered may probably cause great
disturbance, if not frustrate this whole work.

We conceive here are at least 300 serviceable saddle horses, besides
a greater proportion of draught horses, also fit for service, which are in
persons' hands not fit to be trusted with them, although the respective
owners have given security to have them forthcoming, which we
can not take out of their hands, in regard we have not money to pay for
them, nor know how to keep them for want of forage if we take them
into our hands, and therefore desire your commands concerning them.
And all things else we may serve you with shall be faithfully obeyed
by your honours' humble and faithful servants.

Carrickfergus, tfie gth of Aprils ^6^3-

The Commissioners who wrote this letter were Dr. Henry Jones,
afterwards Bishop of Meath, Colonel Arthur Hill, Col. Venables, and
Major, afterwards Sir Anthony Morgan. The Government in Dublin
immediately had a copy of the proclamation printed, with a list of the
names of the persons intended to be transported, and sent it down to
the Commissioners in the North.

Old Belfast.

A LIST OF THE SCOTS TO BE TRANSPLANTED FROM THE

COUNTIES OF ANTRIM AND DOWN.

BELFAST AND MALONE QUARTERS.

Lieut. Thomas Cranston.
Corporal Thomas M'Cormack.
Hugh Doke.
Robert Clugston.

George Martin.
Alexander Lockard.
Robert King.
Quintine Caterwood*

WEST QUARTERS OF CARRICKFERGUS.

John Murrey,
ohn Russell.
John Reade.
Thos. Young, of Ballynehery.

John Donelson.
ohn Hanna.
James Reade.
tames Patterson.
Wm. Biggard.
George Russell.
John Homes.

George Gibson.

Robert Dickie.

John Clarke, senior.

Patrick Martine.

Richard Cambell.

Andrew Reade, junior.

Quarter- Master Archibald Crafford

Robt. Archball.

Andrew Wilson.

Alexander Miller.

BROAD ISLAND AND EAST QUARTER OF CARRICKFERGUS.

Hugh Donellson.
Captain Edmonstone.
Ensign David Macley.
Robert Gardner.
David Harper.

William Miller.
John McKergor.
John Dowgell.
Matthew Logan.

ISLAND MAGEE, MAGHERAMORNE, AND BALLYNURE.

Capt. Robt. Kinkede.
James Browne.
Ensign Willm. Stephenson.
Capt. James M*Cullogh.

John Blare.
Willm. Agnew.
John Agnew.

SIX MILE WATER QUARTERS.

Capt. George Welch.
Thomas Wyneam.
Capt. Ferguson.
Lieut. Hewston.
Lieut. Robt. Ferguson.
Alexander Pingle.
Andrew Taggart.

Quintine Kenedy.
James Cuthberd.
John Cowtard.
Robert Gragham.
John Cowan.
Thomas Rea.

The Commonwealth and the North of Ireland. 8i

Lord of Ardes.
Capt. James Cambell.
Capt. Willm. Buchannon
Teige O'Monney.
Willm. Crafford.
John Crafford.
Brice Crafford.
John Crafford.

EARL OF ardes' QUARTERS.

Mr. Francis Shaw.
Gilbert McNeile.
Willm. Sloane.
George Young.
John Wilson.
Peter Young.
Mr. Arthur Upton.

Capt. Henry Sibbalds.
John Davison.
Capt. John Williams.
Capt. John Fisher.
Capt. John Mc Bride.
Quarter- Master Mitchell.
Major Clotworthy.
David Mitchell.
Ensign John M*Cormett.

SHANE*S CASTLE, LARGEE,

Lieut. -Col. Walter Stewart.
Lieut. Andrew Adayre.
Henry Vemor.
Willm. McCullough.
Lieut. James Dobbins.
Ensign John Bryen.
Thomas Bollock.

Matthew Hamele, Leard of Raugh-
wood.

ANTRIM QUARTERS.

John Wagh, merchant.
Robert Shannon.
John Whyte.

Quarter- Master Ferguson.
Capt. James Collvill.
Lieut. James Lynsey.
Lieut. James McAddams.
Gilbert Eikles.

AND TOOME QUARTERS.

Captain Robert Hewston.

Lieut. Robt. Carr.

Lieut. James Pont

Lieut. Hamill.

Lieut. Greenshields.

Ensign Dobbin.

Lieut. Alexander Cunningham.

Ensign Robt. Cunningham.

Lieut. Martine.

BRAID AND KEART

Thomas Adair.

Corporal James M*Cullogh.

Willm. Hamilton.

John Sprule.

Lieut. Paul Cunningham.

Capt. Willm. Hewston.

Capt. Thom. Fawebarne.

Capt. David Johnston.

James Ewart.

AND CLENOGHORTI QUARTERS.

Nimion Dunbare.
Halbert Gledstone.
Lieut. Arthur Aghmuti.
Lieut. Willm. Johnstone.
Major Alexander Adaire.
Cornet James Browne.
Cornet John Stewart.
Adam Johnstone.

KILLELOGH AND KILMACKUETT QUARTERS.

Lieut. Mcllroy.

David Kenedy.

Lieut. Hugh Cambell.

George (if not John) Gordon, of

Bowskeagh.
Lieut. Erwine.
Lieut. Anthony Ellis.

Capt. Hercules Longford.
Willm. Norris.
Willm. Cunningham.
George Cambell.

GLENARM BARONY.

Mr. James Shaw.
Capt. John Shaw.
Mr. Donnelson.
Capt. John Agnew.
Willm. Greige.
Randall Bushell.
James Donellson.

Capt. Lieut. John Hume,
James Fenton.
John Mount Gomery.
John Shaw.
James Crumy.
Francis Agnew.

Old Belfast.

ROOTE QUARTERS.

Major John Stewart.
Lieut. -Col. Robt. Kenedy.
Capt. Alexr. Stewart.
Fergus McDougall.
John Boyle.
John Getty.

Alexander Stewart, senr.
James Maxwell.
Capt. Marmaduke Shawe.
John Henery.
Comet Robert Knole
Willm. Hutchin.
Alexander Scott.
Donnel M*Cay.
Lieut. James Moncrief.
Robt. Harvey.
Willm. Spherling.

Thos. Boyd.

Sam. Dunbarr.

Alexr. Dunlapp.

Adam Dunlap.

Patrick Glen.

Major Hugh Mount Gomery.

Andrew Rowan.

Angus Cambell.

Cornet John Gordon.

Captain John Hewston.

Lieut.-Col. Cunningham.

John Kidd.

Lieut. Arch. Cambell.

Mr. John Peebles.

Mr. Cartaret.

Capt. John Robbinson.

Quarter- Master Robt. Stewart.

John Johnstone.
Thos. Abemethy.
James Carr, of Arteslone.
James Johnston.

COLERAINE QUARTERS.

David Wilson.
Robert Fulton.
Andrew White.

CASTLEREAGH, KILIORHNI, AND LISNEGARVY QUARTERS.

Corporal Gilbert Matthews.
John Streane.
John Cowtard.

LORD OF ARDES' QUARTERS.

James Gragham.
John Cowan.
Thomas Rea.

Lord of Ardes.
Capt. James Cambell.
Capt. Willm. Buchannon.
Lieut. Hugh Dundas.
Capt. John Keath.
John Mountgomery, of Movill.
James M owe 11.
James McConchy.

Willm. Catterwood.

Mr. Willm. Shaw.

Fergus Kenedy.

Capt. Hugh McGomery.

Mr. Hugh Mountgomery.

Lieut. John Wilson.

Lieut. Andrew Cunningham.

Lieut. McDowell, of Comber.

LITTLE ARDES, GRAY ABBEY, AND LISHOROUGH QUARTERS.

Capt. Magill.
Gilbert Harran.
Robt. Rossc.

John Parke.

Lieut. John Mumpeny.

James Maxwell.

LORD CLANEBOYE'S QUARTERS.

Lord Claneboy.

Lieut. Gawen Hamilton.

Capt. John Bayly.

Lieut. Hugh Wallas.

James Ross, senior.

Wm. Hamilton, of the Rowe.

Mr. George Rosse.

James Hamilton, of Ballyme-

gonnnn.
Patrick Allen.
James Rosse, junior.
Gawen Hamilton.
Capt. Alexander Stewart.
Wm. Hamilton, junior.

John Steephenson.

Nimion Pate.

Lieut. Edward Baylye.

Francis Purdy.

Capt. John Steephenson.

John Barkley.

Quarter- Master Edwd. McKee.

Ensign James Cooper.

Lieut. Robt. Cunningham.

Lieut. Carre.

Captain Mathew Hamilton.

Capt. Collin MaxwelL

David Williamson.

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LEGALE QUARTERS.

Lieut. Hugh Mountgomery.
Lieut. Launcelot (ireere.
Lieut. Thomas Lynsey.
Lieut. Wodney.
Lieut. John Reynolds.
Capt. John Wool.

James Stewart.
John Dunbarr.
John Tennent.
James Porter.
Stephen Major.
John McDowell.

A List of the persons delivered by the Scottish Agents for the Counties
of Down and Antrim, and desired to be dispensed with

for their removing.

Quintine Caterwood.

BELFAST QUARTERS.

Alexander Lockard.

BROAD ISLAND QUARTERS.

David McLay.

John McKergor.

SIX MILE WATER QUARTERS.

Capt. Geo. Welch. | Lieut. Hewston.

Capt. John W^illiams.
Capt. John McBride.

ANTRIM QUARTERS.

Ensign McCormack.
John Wagh.

SHANE'S CASTLE QUARTERS.

Capt. Robt. Hewston.

KILLELEAGH AND KILMAKEWET QUARTERS.

David Kennedy.
Lieut. Cambell.

John Boyle.
John Getty.
Alexr. Scott.

James McConchy.
John Montgomery.
Capt. Willm. Buchanan.

John Gordon.

GLEN ARM QUARTERS.

John Shaw.

ROOT QUARTERS.

Ahth. Kennedy.
Andr. Kenan.
Mr. Carcart.

LORD OF ARDES' QUARTERS.

Lieut. Hugh Dundas.

Lieut. Geo. Nowell.

Lieut. Andrew Cunningham.

Gilbert Haron.
Robt. Maxwell.

LITTLE ARDES QUARTERS.

Lieut. John Mompeny.
Lieut. John Wilson.

LORD CLANEBOVE'S QUARTERS.

Lieut. Gawin Hamilton.
Lieut. Hugh Wallace.
Quarter- Master McKee.
Capt. Math. Hamilton.

David W'illiamson.
Lieut. Andw. Carre.
Lieut. Robt. Cunningham.

LEGALE QUARTER.

Lieut. Thomas Lyndsay.

84 Old Belfast.

THE REPLY OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE TO THE
COMMISSIONERS, 13 APRIL, 1653.

The first thing you propound is the transplanting of such popular
men in those parts, of whose dutiful and peaceable demeanours you
have no assurance, unto some other part of Ireland where their
influence may not be prejudicial to the Commonwealth. Wherein,
after serious consideration, we do fully agree with you that the thing
is desirable, if you judge it may be done without such disturbance in
the country as may raise the expectation of the Irish for some issue
to their advantage.

■ The places into which we conceive they may with safety to the
Commonwealth, and advantage to themselves, be removed are parts of
the Counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterford. The Decies,
in the County of Waterford, and such other parts of that county
where they may with security inhabit. How this may effectually be
put into execution, we leave to you to determine and prosecute as you
shall apprehend to be most practicable with least noises. We
cannot see but it must be either by securing the persons of the men
until their families and stocks be removed, or by taking security by
bonds from them to remove by a day appointed. And to the end
they may not apprehend their removal to be of prejudice to them, you
may- give them assurance that they shall enjoy the benefits of their
estates and farms from whence they remove for this year to come,
they employing persons to manage the same of whose fidelity to the
Commonwealth you receive assurance.

To this the Commissioners for settling Ulster write from Derry,
24.th April, 1653.

We entered into the consideration of Conditions to be held forth to
such as should be transplanted which might induce them to under-
take the thing willingly, and so prevent all occasions of disturbances,
and thought it adviseable to offer. First, That valuable consideration
might be allowed in land for the lands, leases, and houses of such as
should be transplanted, according to their respective interests.

Second, That they may hold such lands till this time two years
without cess or contribution, and be allowed what timber is necessary
either for building or repairing old houses.

Tlu same to be allowed out of the ComvioftwealtH s Woods.

Third, That they may enjoy by their agents the profits of their
lands they now possess here till November next.

Approved of.

Fourth, That we engage, if they require it, to take off all their corn
now upon the ground, being made into meal and delivered into the
store at the market price, and pay the money to them where they
shall desire.

Approved of.

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Fifth, That convoys be allowed to them, and licences to keep arms
for their defence.

Sixth, That they may choose their own ministers, provided they be
such as are peaceably minded towards those they live under, and not
scandalous. .,, , ,

Approved of.

Seventh, That such as have not titles to land shall have leases of

so much as they can stock at a valucabie rent. ... , ,

' Approved of.

Now in regard of the great weight of this affair, we resolved not to
declare these conditions, or proceed in it any farther, till we should
receive your Honours' approbation of these, or directions concerning
other condition.s, which we humbly beg with all possible speed, in
regard of the nearness of the expiration of our commi.ssion.

We have here met with one Lieut. Hamilton fwho formerly took
the Engagement, and was since in arms against you at Worcester),
whom we have secured and intend to send him to Dublin, together
with one Major Graham (who formerly betrayed a Castle of ours to the
enemy), to be disposed of as your Honours shall think fit. We find
this town a place of very great strength, and might easily be made
well nigh impregnable. We have some thoughts of transplanting
some of the Scotch inhabitants into some of the towns of the South,
ifwccan find fit grounds to hold out for their removal, their number
being at present almost equal with the English, which we judge very
dangerous to be allowed. In which we also crave your further
directions, and humbly remain

Your Honours' humble and faithful servants,

RoBT. Venabi.es, Arthur Hill, Henrv Jones,
WiLLM. A1.L0N, Anthony Morgan.

Londonderry, 24 April, 165^.

(The Parliamentary Commissioners in Dublin then printed a
proclamation, dated at Carrickfcrgus 23rd May, 1653 ; omitted here,
as it is given in Reid's Hislory of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,
2nd ed., vol. ii., p. 178.)

S6 Old Belfast.

Letter of the Ulster Commissioners.
Right Honourable,

In pursuance of what was formerly presented unto you,
our Commission being determined to give you by one of our number
this following account of our actings, in the further obser\ance of your
instructions for the settling of Ulster.

Upon Adjutant-General Allen and Major Morgan's departure
(finding that some time would be elapsed before the Declaration could
be printed and sent to us) the enclosed paper was agreed upon and
signed by us all, to be sent by us that stayed here with all speed into
the several Quarters, to the end that no time might be lost in hasten-
ing the transplanted to make choice of their Agents to attend yours in
order to their future removal, which was accordingly executed, and
the transplanted met at the place appointed before the Declaration
came to us, which we received the 5th instant, upon consideration
whereof it was not thought fit to publish the same for these ensuing
reasons.

First, Because of the great mistake of the printing the names.

Secondly, Because we would take all occasion from any [by
variation or transposition of matter from that which we had formerly
held forth unto them] to suggest unto the rest [who are too ready to
lay hold on any colourable pretence to misrepresent our actions] that
we had in the least differed from our former papers.

Thirdly, Because if the Declarations had been issued as soon as
received they would have added nothing in furtherance of the work
intended, being they contain no new matter save only the preamble.

Fourthly, Because they could not be sent and divulged into the
several Quarters before the day appointed for the return of their final
answer in choosing and instructing of their Agents for the purpose
aforesaid, which was appointed to be the 7th.

Lastly^ Because we had received some information from their
meetings of their averseness to remove, to which we had formerly
hopes they would have been more pliable, and so conceived that they
inight give occasion to make some alteration in what was already
intended to be declared. Upon the 7th and 8th instant, the Agents of
both Counties attended us for passes, which we accordingly granted
them.

Those of the County of Antrim gave us to understand that they
could not possibly take their journey for want of money in regard the
Transplanteds left them before a collection could be made : Wherefore
to further their despatch we were necessitated to borrow ;f40, which
Ave have delivered unto them, and humbly desire that you would be
pleased to issue your warrant to the Commissioners of the Revenue to
levy the same equally upon the Transplanteds that the same be
repaid accordingly to Col. Venables* orders, that so we may be dis-
charged of our engagement for the same.

During the time these Agents attended us, some gentlemen of
both Counties [being more desirous to choose and conclude for them-

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selves than by Agents] desired passes from us to attend you to that
purpose, which we accordingly granted them. Their names and
petitions signed will be delivered with this unto you. If more shall
desire the same we shall readily agree to afford them passes, because
we conceive it may much further the work intended by begetting a
better understanding in those that are left behind in your good
intentions towards them, when they shall perceive others beside their
Agents return satisfied, and fully agreed with you for their future
residence. .By all that hitherto we can see, either into the humours of
these people or the issue of this business, we do not yet find that
there will need much force or further threatening to render them con-
formable, so they may be satisfied in the ensuing propositions.

First, That the places they go to inhabit be free from infection,
and probably secure from Tories and enemies.

Secondly, In regard that many of them are of mean conditions,
they desire they may be left to choose their own landlords in any of
the two provinces, by whose just dealing and countenance they may
have hopes to live with the less oppression and disturbance.

Thirdly, That if they contract for the State's lands their Contribution
may be included in their Rent, that so they may be at a certainty.

Fourthly, That they may hav^e such terms for years of the places
that they go to possess as may probably render them and their posterity
gainers for the present hazard and great charge they are at in
removing, and planting of the waste they go to possess.

Fifthly, That those that have free holds or considerable leases of
value may not be forced to surrender their evidences or transfer their
rights until they have legal assurances made unto them of what they
receive in exchange.

Sixthly, That they may enjoy the profits of their estates that they
leave behind [paying contribution out of them as they now do] until
the places exchanged with them be so planted as may render them a
future livelihood, which is conceived cannot be less than one year after
November next.

These things being accidentally discoursed with us by several of
them, and considering that these being added to what are formerly
proposed, they are but what we should propose for ourselves if we were
in their case. We have presumed to offer them to your consideration,
believing that if you find them fitting to be consented to, and reserye
them as concessions of favour from yourselves, with what other things
of that kind may occur, all obstructions will be removed as to the
general transplanting. Except in some few particular cases, which, by
reason of age, sickness, or other necessary impediments, cannot remove
without apparent ruin to their persons or fortunes.

And further, you will beget in the hearts of these people such an
understanding of your good intentions towards them, beyond all what
they have heard or thought of you, as that we are persuaded you will
within a twelvemonth more leave few here that will not be willing to
go faster (it may be) than you would have them. We have one thing
more to add for their encouragement, and also the State's advantage

Old Belfast.

(as we conceive), which is, that all the land that is set them be set by
the acre, that if you include the contribution in the rent, you do (after
the first year's freedom) the next year reserve very little more than
the contribution comes to, and so increase your rent yearly for two or
three years after until you come to such a rent as you find fit for the
State to receive for their whole time, and them to pay with respect to
their future comfortable subsistence and well-being.

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LONDON,
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This business is in our thoughts of that weight (and presume iai
yours also) in respect of the future planting of these parts withi
English, and thereby securing of the same, that we cannot pass by the 1
convenience that may ensue upon the premises if the ends aforesaid be 1
obtained by them.

First, You displant these here without noise or clamour. l

Secondly, their ministers will probably follow.

Thirdly, Whereas you have proposed these certain places to dwelt
in, neare and in a manner contiguous, you disperse them further
asunder by giving them way to settle in any places in the said
Provinces as aforesaid, and so render their conjunctions less powerful
in opposition at any time against the State.

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Fourthly, You will assuredly find after the first year profit by their
removal, for they will then in rent and contribution be content,
according to the goodness of the land, to pay yearly for their wastes
(which it may be in 7 years would not be inhabited) much more than
the contribution they paid here comes to.

But, If these people [notwithstanding the concessions afforded]
shall still prove refractory, we conceive then no other means but force
will render them comformable. In order to which we humbly offer
that whom you think fit may be empowered, upon the return of their

Agents, to call all these Transplanteds to one place, that there it be
demanded who are willing to remove by a time prefixed and who not.
That those that signify their consents give assurance of performance
by a prefixed time ; that those that refuse be imprisoned, and sent into
Leinster and Munster to be secured, without disturbance to their
families or prejudice to their estates, that so all may see that nothing
is intended by their removal but present and future security.

As these parts suffer very much by closing of the ports, in order to
their trade with Scotland, which we conceive cannot with safety to
your affairs here be opened until these things be brought to an issue
one way or another, for the trade into England and alongst the Coast
also is exceedingly obstructed by some Pirates which lye upon these
harbours.

They came lately into this Road, and soon after took two vessels
loaden with corn and meal, bound for Connaught, out of the harbour

go Old Belfast.

of Oulderfleet, which by composition [upon licence granted to the
purpose] were rescued again. A third was taken coming from
Colraine, and a fourth, being one of the poor men*s barques that was
recovered in Donegal, and laded with meal for Ballyshannon, was
taken and sunk by them because she had no lading in her, so that if
your Honours do not speedily cause some swift* vessell of good force
to come into these parts, to secure the passage betwixt England and
this place, trade will be utterly at a stand. Riches vessel is now at
Ayr, and if she were here she is too small to deal with these, and,
indeed, if they have courage to set upon her, and have sail enough
to reach her, she will be in hazard of taking.

In order to your commands of the 14th of May orders are issued for
the listing and appraising of all serviceable horse ; it will be a work of
time before it be exactly done ; as soon as it is effected, care will be
taken to return you a perfect list, according to instructions. There
were some gentlemen nominated and sworn for the appraising of the
horses lately bought in these parts, who have petitioned to be satisfied
for their pains and expcncc in attending that service, and in regard wc
have no command of the Treasury here, we beseech your directions
concerning the same to the Commissioners of the Revenue. Wc make
bold to remind you of what had been formerly offered concerning a
Packet Boat between these parts and Soctland ; with what hath been
herein presented wc leave to your consideration, and rest

Your Honours'

Most humble and faithful servants,

R. Venables, Art. Hill, H. Jones.

(Trin. Coll. Dub. F. 3. 18.)
CarrickferguSy June /^, 165^,

The next that we find upon the subject is the following letter from
the Government at Dublin to the Commissioners in Ulster : —

Right honourable.

In obedience to the order of reference of the 21st inst. to
us and others directed for receiving and debating such papers and
proposals as should be offered concerning the Scotts, or by the Scottish
Agents concerning the intended transplantation of the Scotts out of
Ulster, and in order to the settling and securing of that Province, and
for reporting of the same to your Honours with our opinions there-
upon : Upon considerations had of the whole matter we humbly offer
the proceedings, and our sense therein as followeth. That the
necessity of that work of transplantation appearing, we confine our-
selves to the debate of the manner how it was to be effected.
Particularly with respect had to the places whither, the time when,
the persons who, and the conditions under which those were to be
removed. The Agents for the Counties of Antrim and Down being
called before us, and we having heard what was by them offered
concerning every of these particulars.

The Commonwealth axi> the North of Ireland, gi

First, For the place whither they were to be transported the said
Agents excepting the County of Waterford as over remote, and in
general to the places mentioned in the former proposals as over much
limited, desiring rather to be therein left at large, and to their own
choice: Upon debate it was concluded —

Firstly, That of the Counties formerly proposed the County of
Waterford should be excluded in favour to the transplanted, yet in
further favour to them {and at the request of the said Agents) reserv-
ing to any of the Scotch merchants of the transplanted (who should
require it) liberty to reside in and trade in the City of Waterford,

Secondly, That such of those who are to be transplanted and
provided for on the account of the Commonwealth, according to the
former proposals, shall be disposed of in the County of Kilkenny and
Tipperary according to the said proposals.

Thirdly, That all of those who are not to be provided for by the
Commonwealth as aforesaid, and to be transplanted, should be left to
their liberty for taking land from any proprietor in the respective
■Counties of the Province of Lcinster, respect being had to their
numbers in every said County,

Second, For the time when to be transplanted. It being insisted
upon by the Agents that it should be deferred until the next year, the
reason of the year for such a work being now (as they said) elapsed.
And it being debated and considered that the giving them the time
desired was to give opportunity and time for their designs in the
interim as occasion should be offered, and that therein they might
have the opportunity for disappointing the intended security of the
Province of Ulster, consisting (probably) in their removal. And if
what was to be herein done were not speedily effected, the .season of
the year would be altogether elapsed as to their accommodations.

It was therefore concluded : —

Firstly, That the i Sth of August next shall be the time limited for
the removal of the persons in Ulster thereunto nominated.

Secondly, That the families of those persons so removed as afore-
said shall also remove out of Ulster to the places appointed them in
Kilkenny and Tipperary, or to the places chosen by them in Lernster
as aforesaid, by the first of November next following.

92 Old Belfast.

Thirdly, As to the persons who should be removed. The said
Agents offered the names and petitions of several whom they con-
ceived not fit to be removed, which, being taken into consideration, it
was resolved : — That the names of the list last sent by the Com-
missioners for the settling of Ulster should stand for the present, and
that the persons mentioned in the papers delivered by the said Agents
of Down and Antrim, together with the petitioners mentioned, should
be referred to Col. Vcnables, and to such as he shall think fit to
consult withal, who arc to consider what is to be done therein accord-
ing to the rules to be given them in it. This to be expressed in a
letter to Col. Venables to that purpose. Also, on the reading of the
Lord of Clandcboy's petition concerning his not removing, it was
resolved that nothing therein appeared for altering that formerly
ordered for his removal out of Ulster, As to the conditions on which
those persons were to be removed : It was resolved that their con-
cessions in the printed paper of the 23rd of May, 1653, should be
insisted upon as to the matter, yet leaving to the said Agents the liberty
of offering in writing, which they further desired in pursuance of the
former, who thereupon tendered their following proposals: —

First Proposal. We desire that, instead of exchanging our estates
with any in this country, we may have liberty to dispose of them to
well-affected English in the North, and may have freedom to chuse
lands here where we can bargain with greatest advantage. Consider-
ing which, the first head in this proposal is granted, provided that the
persons to whom the lands in Ulster shall be so disposed be such as
shall be approved by Commissioners of the Commonwealth, or whom
they shall appoint. The next head in this proposal, concerning liberty
for the making choice of lands in Leinster, was formerly granted.

Second Proposal. We humbly desire two years' freedom from con-
tributions from May next, being the soonest we can enter into the
country husbandry. Concerning this, resolved : That it be offered to
the Commissioners of the Commonwealth that two years' freedom from
contribution be given, beginning from May last past.

Third Proposal. We desire freedom from subscriptions and oaths
for ourselves and ministers. To this is answered : That it is not our
practice to force engagements upon any contrary to their consciences.

Fourth Proposal. That our wives and families may enjoy half our
houses till May next, with liberty to dispose of corn and fodder for the
wintering of cattle. For this we referred ourselves to that before
resolved concerning the time of removal.

Fifth Proposal. That we may have liberty to assign our debts
warrantably to some who have taken the engagement, that they may
be recovered for our enablement to plant in this country. In this they
are referred to the practices in England in such cases.

Sixth Proposal. We do desire that we may have the use of this
year's fallows and dunged lands we have in the North, paying by the
acre for them at the rate of the rest of the land. This is granted.

Seventh Proposal. That our horses shall not be taken from us.
Granted equal freedom with the English.

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Eighth Proposal. That those of our number resolved to drive
trades by land or sea, \vc may have all the freedom and immunities
other subjects have. This granted in respect to trade.

Ninth Proposal. That we be provided in arms for our necessary
defence in the places we come to, and that the protectors bordering
upon our plantations may make up what goods shall be taken from us
by robbers or stealth. For this they shall be allowed their arms, and
the same care shall be taken of them as of the Protestant English.

Tenth Proposal. That after November next no quartering of soldiers
be upon our families. For this they shall be in the same condition as
other English Protestants.

Eleventh Proposal. We are likewise required by our instructions to
desire that so many servants and tradesmen whom we can persuade
to come along with us may have the benefit of the conditions granted
to ourselves. And our servants to be compelled to come along with us.
This granted.

All which the before-mentioned, being the substance of our debates
with the said Agents in this thing and our sense in it, we humbly
offer to your Honours, with this our further opinion in the whole
matter.

That such of those who are to be transplanted as aforesaid who
shall refuse to remove contrary to orders therein given shall be
declared delinquents, and be proceeded against accordingly to the
securing of their persons, and sequestrating and confiscating their
estates. Dated jot h of June ^ ^^53-

Charles Coote, Hierome Sankey, Anthony
Morgan, Wm. Allen, Hen. Jones, Phil.
Carteret, Rich. Lawrence.

Order touching the Scotts in Ulster.

Upon consideration had of the reports made unto us the 30th day
of June, 1653. By virtue of reference of the 22nd of the same month
to Sir Hardress Waller, Knt; Sir Charles Coote, Knt. and Bart. ; Col.
Hierome Sankey, Col. Richard Lawrence, Col. Daniel Axtell, Col.
Robt. Barrowe, Dr. Henry Jones, Col. Sadleir, Adjutant-General
Allen, Major Morgan, and James Standish, Esq., or any four or more
of them, for receiving and debating such papers and proposals as should
be offered concerning the Scotts, or by the Scottish Agents concerning
the intended transplantation of the Scotts out of Ulster, and in order
to the settling and securing of the Province, and for reporting the same
unto us, with their opinions thereupon, which they having done
accordingly, with respect had to the places whither, the times when,
the persons who, and the conditions on which these persons were to
be removed.

It is ordered (First) for the places whither they are to be trans-
planted. That of the Counties formerly proposed, the County of
Waterford shall be omitted in favour to the transplanted, yet, in
further favour to them, reserving to any of the Scottish merchants
of the transplanted who shall require, a liberty to reside and trade in

94 Old Belfast.

the City of Waterford, they first promising under their hands in writing
that they shall not act nor do anything to the prejudice of the
Commonwealth of England : And that such of those who are to be
transplanted and provided for on the account of the Commonwealth,
according to the premised proposals made at Carrickfergus the 23rd
May, i653,by the Commissioners appointed for the settling and secur-
ing of Ulster shall be disposed of in the Counties of Kilkenny and

Tipperary according to the said proposals, and all others who arc
not to be provided for by the Commonwealth as aforesaid, and are
to be transplanted, shall be left to their liberty for taking land
from any proprietors in the respective Counties of the Province of
lleinster, respect being had to their numbers in every of the said
Counties.

Secondly. That the times for the persons named in the list for to
be removed out of Ulster into the places before-mentioned shall be
at or before the first of November next : And that the respective
families of those persons so removed as aforesaid shall also remove out
of Ulster to the places appointed in the Counties of Kilkenny and
Tipperary, or to the places chosen by them in Lcinster as aforesaid, at
or before the T5th of April now next ensuing.

Thirdly, That as to the persons who shall be removed, the names
in the lists hereunto annexed, last sent by the Commissioners for
settling of Ulster, shall stand. And that the persons mentioned in
the papers now delivered by the Scottish Agents for the Counties of
Down and Antrim, together with the petitions concerning persons not
to be removed : And the consideration of any other persons in the said
list mentioned shall be referred to Col. Robert Barrowc, Col. Robert
Venables, Major Francis Bolton, Major Daniel Redman, and Capt.
Bickerstaffe, or any two or more of them, who shall be and are hereby
authorised to dispense with the removal of such persons in the said
papers, petitions, or list mentioned as they or any two or more of
them shall judge to be unfit to be removed in regard of age, sickness,
or other impotency of body, and of such other persons in the list
mentioned as they or any two or more of them shall judge fitting to
be dispensed withal for their removing aforesaid. Provided that the
said dispensation be not extended to any person or persons that
contrived, counselled, aided, or assisted the siege of Londonderry, then
defended by the English forces under the command of Sir Charles

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Coote, now Lord President of Connaught, nor to any person or
persons that counselled, acted, aided, or assisted the removal of Col.
Monk from his command in the County of Louth or the Province of
Ulster. Nor to any person or persons that have acted, councelled,
aided, or assisted in the war against the Parliament of England, their
army or forces.

Fourthly, As to the conditions on which those persons are to be
removed. It is ordered that the Commissioners, in the printed paper
of the 23 of May, 1653, held out by the said Commissioners for the
settling of the Province of Ulster, shall be and are hereby ratified and
confirmed : And in further favour to the persons to be transplanted,
and in answer to the proposals delivered by the Agents aforesaid, it is
also ordered : —

First, That they may have liberty to dispose of their respective
estates in the Counties of Down and Antrim, respect being had to the
qualifications under which they do fall in the Act, cntituled an Act for
the Settling of Ireland : Provided that the persons to whom the lands
in Ulster shall be disposed, and the conditions on which the said lands
shall be disposed, be such as shall be approved by us, or whom we
shall appoint.

Second, That from May last past they shall have two years*
freedom from contributions for the waste lands on which they shall
plant.

Third, To that by them desired, that they be freed from sub-
scriptions and oaths, we declare it is our principle, and (we trust) the
Lord will enable us to make it our practice, to use all tenderness to
tender consciences.

Fourth, That the wives and families of those who are to be trans-
planted as aforesaid shall enjoy the benefit of their houses wherein
they now are until the 15th of April next ensuing, and to dispose of
their corn and fodder for the wintering of their cattle.

Fifth, As to their desire for the recovery of their debts. Those
that do actually remove shall have liberty to receive their just debts,
notwithstanding their not taking the Engagement, such persons first
obtaining a license from Col. Venables, under his hand, to dispense
with the taking the Engagement in order to their suing for their
debts.

Sixth, For such lands as are fallowed and dunged this year. The
benefit whereof shall be granted for the next crop.

Seventh, Whereas they desire that their horses may not be taken
from them. They shall be therein in the same condition with the
other English.

Eighth, That such of the persons to be removed as aforesaid who
shall trade by sea or land shall have, in relation to trade, the same
freedom and immunities with other English, they first promising,
under their hands in writing, that they shall not act or do anything to
the prejudice of the Commonwealth of England.

Ninth, Whereas they desire that arms be allowed them in the
places to which they remove, and that the protected Irish bordering

96 Old Belfast.

upon them may make up what goods shall be taken from them by
robbery or stealth. It is declared that the same care shall be taken of
them as of English Protestants.

Tenth, To that desire of theirs, that after November next there
should be no quartering of soldiers on their families. They shall be
for that in the same condition with the English Protestants.

Eleventh, As to the tenants of the persons so removing, and to
tradesmen who shall be willing to go along with them. Such shall
have the benefit of the same conditions granted to the persons in the
same qualification with them respectively : And as for compelling their
servants to remove with them (which they desire), they are therein left
to the law in such cases. Dublin^ tfu 13th July ^ 16 jj,

C F. E L. M C. J J. (Charles Fleetwood, Edmund
Ludlow, Miles Corbett, John Jones.)

(Order Book. A. 8^. Berviingham To-wer.)

Reply to Sir Robert Adair's Petition, 12 July, 1653.

PON reading the petition of Sir Robt. Adaire, Knt., setting forth his
good and faithful services in England and Ireland, and desiring the
benefit of his estate in Ireland, and that the same might be freed
from sequestration, according to the favour held forth in the Parlia-
ment's declaration unto such who have since the Battle of Dunbar,
on the 3d of September, 1650, deserted Charles Stuart, and not borne
arms since against the Parliament. And upon a perusal of a certificate from
the Commissioners lately appointed for the settling and securing of Ulster, to whom
the examination of the Petitioner's allegations and delinquencys was formerly
referred. It appearing that the said Sir Robt. Adair hath been very serviceable
formerly to the Commonwealth of England, and suffered much for his faithfulness
and affections to the same. And further, that he was a Colonel in the Scotch army
at the time of the engagement at Dunbar with the English forces, but by reason of
some indisposition of body was not at that fight, nor did serve afterwards amongst
them, but his regiment was then given unto Major-General Massey ; and that he
hath ever since, for ought appeared unto them, lived peaceably without acting
any thing to the prejudice of the Commonwealth. It is upon consideration of the
whole matter thought fit and ordered That the said Robt. Adaire be and is hereby
permitted to enjoy his said estate in Ireland, and to receive the rents, issues, and
profits thereof until further order, paying contribution and other publick duties :
and the Commissioners of the Revenue where the said estate lyeth are to see this
order duly obser\'ed and made good unto him accordingly. Whereof they and all
others whom it may concern are to take notice."
Dublin^ 12 July ^ 1633.

C. F : E. L : M. C : (Charles Fleetwood, Edmund Ludlow,
Miles Corbet), Parliamentary Commissioners for
managing affairs in Ireland.

Dublin, I 31 h July, i6s3»
** Ordered, that a packet boat be settled for the conveying of intelligence
betwixt the Province of Ulster in Ireland and the Town of Ayr in Scotland, and
that Col. Robt. Venables and the rest of the Commissioners of Revenue at Belfast
do order the same, as may be most for the advantage of the public."

" It is ordered that it be referred to Col. Robt. Venables and Col. Robt. Brown,
jointly and severally, to consider how trade in the small ports between Ulster and
Scotland may be opened without prejudice to the publick, and likewise of fit
persons to be by them appointed, who are hereby authorized to give Licenses unto
such persons as they shall conceive to be of honesty and integrity to trade with

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theil- ships and goods between any port of Ulster and Scotland, and to pass and
repass without molestation. Such persons so trading to give good security to land
their goods and merchandise in some of the Parliament's Garrisons and not else-
where, and to return certificates from the Governors of the Garrisons where the
goods are landed."

S August, 1653,

In Aug., 1653, the Council write to Venables and Col. Barron, desiring them
to consider the various ministers in Ulster, to certify the names of such as may be
peaceable and well affected to the Commonwealth, what maintenance they receive
and from whom, where they reside, so that the Government may dispose of them
equally for the most advantage of the Gospel, and that fitting encouragement and
allowance may be settled upon them for their pains.

The Council of State, writing to the Commissioners of Revenue in Ulster^
Sept., 1652 : —

"The wild course of life which the Irish practice in Greats which doth yield
most relief to the enemy, we therefore desire that all Greats may be broke, and
fixed in families living apart in convenient quarters where they may till the
ground, &c."

To Col, Venables, DubHfiy 21 Oclober^ ^^53'

" We desire you, with all convenient speed, to send up the Original Surveys of
Cavan, Fermanagh, Donegal, Tyrone, and Antrim (you so happily met with) by
some trusty hand, close sealed or locked up. And in y® meantime that you keep
them as private as you may, and suffer no copies to be taken of them. And as
often as you shall meet with any papers of that nature we think fit they should be
immediately conveyed unto us : for such papers were collected at publick charge,
and are most useful to the Commonwealth."

C F. EL. M C. J J. (Charles Fleetwood, Edmund Ludlow^
Miles Corbett, John Jones), Council of State Privy Council.

Letter from the Lord General Cromwell.

To the Rt, Honble, the Lord Deputy mid Council in Ireland,

My Lord and Gentlemen,

We having taken into consideration the inclosed
petition of Sir Robert Adaire, with the certificate of General Monk
concerning his faithful adhering to the Parliament and his good
service in Ireland, we do think fit that the accounts of the arrears of
the said Sir Robert for his service in Ireland be stated, and debentures
given him for the same. And we desire you to give order for the
speedy doing thereof accordingly, That so he may be put into an equal
capacity and forwardness to receive satisfaction out of the lands in
Ireland with others who served in the same service.

We rest

Your loving friend,

Oliver P.

Whitehall, March 22, J 6^4. (No, 46^ f, 104, Bermwi;kam Tower,)

Oll- Beijast

AXsWKR TO THE r

tECE!

; LtiTES- Di-iiN Cv?Ti.»-. 6 Feb.,

The answei is pe;haps ;o3 ion^lo cop>'o-^: :aii^'. : :: ai:k30«:«lge«thc receipt
of Cromit-ells le::er, acd says the Cour.c:: referred :ii wiUi Adair> petition, to the
Commis&ioocr of Acco'-nti. who replied :ha: Adair's del ncuency- io fighting; against
the Parliament ai the b^'.'.le of Dur.bat obstructed the payment of the debenture,
which amounted to the Ur^e sum of £i.96S. equ:%'aIcR: to 9.843 acres of land in
Ulster ; and as the lands of I'lster nil; scarcely satisfx- the claims of the army, the
Council consider that the deb; is postponed bi- Adaire's act of delinquency, and
they therefore respite the delivery of the debenture till they shall receive his
Highnesses further pleasure.

From entries of Leiiers to the Lord Deputy and
Council. No. ;), A, 3a'

To the Right HoncurabU l/u Ci'nimissiom-rs of the Ci'tntiionVHalth
m Inland.
Gextlemex,

We formcrlj- recommended unto you the case of Major-
General Monroe, that the sequestration might be taken off his lady's
jointure in I reland, and that he might be permitted to enjoy the same.
But he hath represented unto us that the sequestration is still con-
tinued, and himself detained at Dublin, to his great chaise and

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prejudice. These are to signify to you that we have received such
good satisraction concerning him, and his resolution to live peaceably
and to be true and faithful in the interest of the Commonwealth, that
we could not but tender his present condition, and do therefore think
fit that the sequestration be forthwith taken off from his wife's jointure,
and he permitted to enjoy the same without any restraint of his
liberty, and remain

Your loving friend,
Whitehall, 18 April, 1654. Ohver P.

Order to Commissioners at Belfast, May, 1654.
"Whereas there is an occasion for ihe landing ofprovisions by sea for the supply
of the forces in the precinct of G.-ilway, It is therefore ordered that the Com-
missioners of the Revenue at Belfast do forthwith appoint such person or persons
as they shall think fit to impress such vessels as shall be sufficient to perform the
aforesa d serv ce allow ng fo the san e the usual ra e of S a e s pay And all
ofRcers of the Adm ralty and all o he offi ers m 1 ary and c v I to be a ding
therein Dubl ft s I '^fty 1654.

General Monroe's Petition, May, 1634.

The Council to Commissioners at Belfast, the Lord Protector having written to
the Council in favour of Major-General Monro in regard of the estate he claims in
right of his wife, sequestrated, demand to know why and wherefore, so that they
may reply to Oliver P. 18 May, i6s4-

loo Old Belfast.

Wrice on sazne dare to Geoeral Mack, srarng dtey had recerred 2s
firoBi CrmtweiL

""^ Whicii order is of so pcb^ coDcerzxzKst. char albeit we are readr :o give it all
doe obserrance. ocrerti&eiess, harm^ reasons :o brticne it vas obcased dtroo^ii
^^^lful^ «x!g^^estx3B& xsd a vwirln g ocrsci^es thai your ecict oy ni c i t in L'lster and
rggptgernenta against the Scocts renders toc capahie of a tzHer snd et s' anirf Tig of
die detnerits of die Vlajor-OesseraL asd of his acrrng a^^aiizst the Coomofiwealth's
interest in Ireiaixd which probabiy cccasioced his scqxaestraiicn . we dcsbe toil,
in ordier zo pabSick good, to c e i tlfv ccio cs yocr knowLed^ oocceniin^ the >Lajor-
Gexieral aforesaid, that we isaT be abie to rrdrreiTe where it is Ifkei^ his
cieixnqisencj has been misrepresented, and so proceed tzrther thcrecpoa ^ shaO
agree with pcbtc ysdctS'

CoounissioQers di Scrreys of lazuis to retcm the Crown lands, bishops' lands,
axid rn die Precinct of Beh^r. compr'sing^ the Cocnc» of Down. Antrim, and
Armagh, were CoL Arthur HilL Fanes Qca'.ne. Richard BickerstaS^ Tobias Norris,
Hcgh Lloyd, Wm. Canninghanu Richard Francklin. and Hq^h Harrisoo. Hsqs.

Ordered that Mr. Jeremy «>Qufn do forthwith repair to the town of Athy. and
do exercise bis gifts in the work of the ministry there, and at scch peaces adjacent
where he shall ^i&%t^ his pains may teed most to the ad\-ancemcnt of the GospeL
And that he do examine and inform iiirr-self ot the progress of the Word in those
parts, and after some time return an accocnt of his proceedm^ therein. May ji^

Ordered the CommLssioaers of Revectie a£ Belfast are to assign and let ost to
Mr. VVyke, minister, a portion of the lands of Dromorc. formerly the demesne of
die late Bishop of Dromore. cot exceeding one hundred acres, and to make a lease
thereof to him for the term of seven years. Au^. 2^ i~f4.

In Commission of the Peace for the Countv* of Antr" m : —

Arthur Lord Chichester. .Arthur HilL

Sir J. Clot worthy. Kt. Philip Pincheon.

Robt. Venables. The Mayor of Carrickfer^^ns.

Robert Barrow. ; George Rawdon.

The oath sworn before the Judge or Clerk of Assize : — L A. B.. do, in the
presence of Almighty (Jod. promise and swear tha: I shalL according to my best
skill and knowledge, well and truly execute the office of a Justice of the Peace
within the County of during the time I shali be continued in the said ofifice.

So help, &C.

16;;. i Or cUrs and Commissions. A. 26,)

P.\RLI.\MEXTARV ClVIL LiST, 1655. — BELF.\5T DISTRICT.

Sck(X'lm.isfers.

Thomas Hasleam,* Lisnegarvey, ... ... ... ^^43

John Cornwall, Belfast, ... ... ... 20

John Smith, Carrickfergus, ... ... ... 20

Civil Onicers, Prcdncf 0/ Bcl-\is\ including tki Counties
of Armagh, LX^^n. and An/nm.

John Tutile, Receiver of the Revenue. ... ... j^ico

His Clerk, ... ... ... -jq

John Leiihes, Storekeeper at Charlemount. Troopers Pay.

Daniel Boote, Storekeeper at Carrickfergus, ..'. 40

Mr. Thomas Morrice, Muster Master, ... ... 127 g

Tobias Norrice, General Charge of Stores, ... ... 100

John Preston, Master of the Packet boat, ... ... loo

The Commonwealth and the North of Ireland, ioi

Elizabeth Mulcaster, Nurse to the Hospital at Belfast, one

shilling per day.
John Daniel Shonbul, Surgeon, 4s. per day.

Custom Officers,

Roger Lindon, Collector at Carrickfergus, ... ... £fio

Willm. Hill, Checque, ... ... ... 40

Edwd. Grant, Surveyor, ... ... ... 30

Hercules Hillman, Waiter, ... ... ... 1850

Willm. Bennet, Waiter, ... ... ... 1850

Robt. Brerely, Collector at Donaghadee, ... ... 30

Roger Crimble, Checque, ... ... ... 20

Anthony Ballard, Waiter, Larne, ... ... 18

Edward Sanders, Waiter at Glenarm, ... ... 18

Jas. Bickerstaff, Waiter at Roote, ... ... 18

Willm. Aplin, Waiter, Groomsport, ... ... 18

Henry Davis, Waiter, Strangford, ... ... 18

Simon Spier, Waiter at Belfast, ... ... 18

Pensioners, Precinct of Belfast,

Elinor Atkinson, per week, ... ... ... los.

John Cooley, ... ... ... ... 26

Arthur and Martha Connely, ... ... ... ;^ioo

Thomas Rogers, ... ... ... ... 2

Kath. Cosbrooke, ... ... ... ... 2

Elizabeth Hudson, ... ... ... ... 2 6

Isabel Sumervil, ... ... ... ... 10

Grizel Shepley, ... ... ... ... 2

Eliz. Kingley, ... ... ... ... 2

Amabell Higgins, ... ... ... ... 2

Eliz. M*Laughlin, ... ... ... ... 3 6

Francis Hooper, ... ... ... ... 2 6

Turlogh O'Lon, £^ per annum.

Teig O'Hara's Case, gth Afarc/t^ 1635,

Teig O'Hara, Esq., took advantage of an Ordinance of the Lord Protector,
dated the 2 of September, 1654, admitting Protestant delinquents to compound for
their estates, and the lands, amounting to 1,850 acres, worth ;£269 yearly in 1640,
deducting chief rents, amounting to ;^23 6 8. ;i245 13 4 allowed to compound at
two years and six months' purchase, amounting to ^614 3 4. For his personal
estate, valued at ;£38, he is allowed to compound for ;^8, the whole amount of his
composition being £fo22 3 4, to be paid in the manner following : — l/io^ 7 9 in
May, 1655, ^'^^ ^^ J^^® sum on 2nd March, 1656 ; on 12 August of the same year,
j^207 7 ID ; the last sum and such sums being paid, the estate " shall be from
henceforth freed and discharged of and from all manner of sequestrations, confisca-
tion, or forfeiture for and in respect of any delinquency in the same Teig O'Hara."
gth Marchy 1633,

Col. Barrow, Col. Trayle, and Mr. Timothy Taylor appointed to receive the
names of such as may be presented to them as persons qualified to preach the
Gospel, and being satisfied that they are pious, holy, gracious men, fitly qualified
for publishing the truth of the Gospel, and of sober, peaceable spirits, they are to
return the names to the Council, and if approved of, such ministers shall be
provided with a comfortable and sufficient maintenance, g May^ i(>55'

Scotch Ministers returned by Colonel Trayle. 20 Nov,^ 1633-

Upon consideration had of the return by Lt. Col. Trayle and Mr. Timothy
Taylor, minister, touching the Scotch ministers in the Province of Ulster, and of

I02 Old Belfast.

the report made of the chief officers of the army thereupon : It is thought fit and
ordered that the allowance of Fifty Pounds be paid out of the Publick Treasure to
the respective ministers, mentioned in the annexed schedule, on the ajth of
December and 15th of March next.

James Gordon. William Richardson.

John Drisdaile.
Patrick Adaire.
Robert Cunningham.
John Gregg.
Gilbert Ramsay.
Thomas Peebles.

Andrew Steward.
Gabriel Cornwall,
Thomas Hall.
Gilbert Simpson.
William M'Cormick.
William Jack.

Being in all the number of fourteen, and living in the Counties of Down and
Antrim.

Commissioners of Revenue at Belfast are to take notice and prepare n
accordingly.

30 Nov., 1653.

Fcby., i6j6.
The Council having reed, a communication from Col, Cooper commanding at
Belfi., and the petition of Love Bure, &c., of Belfast, referred all the papers to bis
Ex. Lord Henry Cromwell, Commander-in-Chief of his Highness' forces in this
Nation, 10 act as he shall think meet in giving orders about sleighting the fort in
Belfast, and restoring the meeting place to the mhabiianis there.

From Entries of Orders of References upon Petitions. (A. 11.)
Upon reading the petition of Archibald Adaire, praying the orders of this
board 10 require the Registrar General to deliver unto the petitioner a debenture
in his custody, which he obtained for the arrears of his deceased father, Sir Robert
Adaire, Kt., for his service in Ireland. And upon consideration had tfiereon, and
of a tetter of his Highness, and the former orders of this Board in the case :
forasmuch as it appears that the said Sir Robert Adaire was actually in arms and
engaged against the Commonweahh at the fight in Dunbar in Scotland, and by
the rule of the Act for stating the arrears for services in Ireland— It is provided that
such as have revolted from the Parliament and turned to the enemy shall lose the
benelii of their arrears due before such revolt, and for that the said debenture was
respited in the hands of the Clerk of the Council, by order of this Board, for the
reason aforesaid. It is though fit and ordered, That the Clerk of the Council do
forthwith cancel the said debenture, and certify the same into the ofKce of the
Commissioners of Accounts, that notice may be taken thereof accordingly. Dated
at the Council Chamber in Dublin 3 February, 1636.

T. H., C.C. (Thomas Herbert, Clerk of the Counca)

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The Council write to Col. Arthur Hill and Major Rawdon and Timothy
Taylor, minister of Carrickfergus, stating that the 27 Feb. had been appointed to
be solemnly kept as a publick day of thanksgiving throughout the nation on account
of the Protector's escape from assassination, and that the day was very slightly
observed by the Scotch ministers in Ulster, though at present under salary from
the Civil list ; to inquire who those ministers were, and the places where settled^
and certify the same to the Council. Date 24 March^ 1656.

"Ordered, that the respective ministers hereunder named, being fifteen in
number, are appointed to preach the gospel in the precincts of Londonderry and
Belfast, in the several and distinct places as to their several names hereunder is
annexed, or elsewhere, in any other vacant place in the said precincts, where they
may respectively conceive their labours may be most conducive to the advancement
of the Gospel ; and for their pains and care therein to receive the yearly salary of
one hundred pounds a-year, to commence from the 25 of March last, and to
continue till further order. Whereof the Clerk of the Council is to take notice
and cause their names to be entered in the Civil List." Dublin Casiky ijth May^
1636,

James Gordon, at
Jno. Drysdale,
Jno. Gregg,
Gilbert Ramsey,
Thos. Peeble,
Wm. Richardson,
Andw. Steward,
Andw. McCormick,

Comber.

Portaferry.

Newtown.

Bangor.

Kirkdonnell.

Killileagh.

Donaghadee.

Magheralin.

Pat Adair,

Rob. Cunningham,
Gab. Comewall,
Thos. Hall,
Gilbert Simpson,
Wm. Jack,
Donald Richmond,

at Camcastle,
Garden.
Braid.

Balliwoolen.
Larne.
Ballyclare.
Aghadowey.
Hollywood.

Ordered that the sum of ;£ 10 be allowed for and towards the demolishing the
fort at Belfast, and bringing the guns and other provisions thence to the Castle of
Carrickfergus. 28 May ^ 1636,

The quarter's salary for Belfast ministers, appointed to be paid by Thos*
Tuttle, the Collector, due 20th June, 1656.

Timoth. Taylor, Carrickfergus,

... /50

Essex Digby, ( Belfast
Willm. Dix, ( ^^"ast,

30
30

Andrew Wike, Lisnegarvey,

yi 10

James Kerr, Ballymoney,

Thos. Johnson, Dromore,

Jeremy O'Quin, Billy,

Thos. Skelston, Newry,

Pat Duncan, Hillsborough,

Willm. Fullerton,

Dan. M'Neile, Ballycastle,

Robt. Ecklin, Strangford,

Willm. Moore, Knock and Breda,

12 ID

James Watson,

12 10

John Walwood, Glenavy, ...

Hugh Graffan,

6 5

Andrew Law, Dundrum, ...

12 10

James Gordon, Comber, ...

John Drisdaile, Portaferry,

John Gregg, Newtoune,

Ant. Buckworth, Magheralin,

Gilbert Ramsey, Bangor,

Thom. Peebles, Kirkdonnell,

Will. Richardson, Killileagh,

And. Stewart, Donaghadee,

I04 Old Belfast.

And. M*Cormick, Magheraly, ... ... £2$

Pat Adai re, Garden Castle, ... ... 25

Robt. Cunningham, Broad Island, ... ... 25

Gabriel Cornwall, Bally woollen, ... ... 25

Thos. Hall, Lame, ... ... 25

Gilbert Simpson, Ballyclare, ... ... 25

Will. Jack, Aghadowey, ... ... 25

Donald Richmond, Holy wood, ... ... 25

Ministers' Widows, half a- year's salary.

Order of References on Petitions.

Upon reading the petition of Arthur Lord Viscount Chichester, setting forth
that by means of the late Rebellion the woods near his residence have been
destroyed, that through the many garrisons which have been continually on his
estate most of his buildings have been demolished, and therefore prays a quantity
of timber out of the Commonwealth woods to rebuild his houses withal. It is
thought fit and ordered that the petitioner be hereby permitted to have a portion
of timber out of the woods in the County of Londonderry as belong unto the
Commonwealth for the aforesaid use, provided the same exceed not one hundred
trees.

Col. Newbrough appointed to see the same. No timber near a navigable river
useful for shipping be taken. Lord Chichester paying for the trees such prices as
Col. shall conceive them to be worth. Council Chamber, Dublin, 15 July ^ 16^6.

For our right triistie and right well beloved our Councel in Ireland,

Right trustie and welbeloved,

A pcticion hath been exhibited unto us by William
Spencer, setting forth that being but seaven yeares old att the
beginning of the Rebellion in Ireland, hee repaired with his mother
{his ffather being then dead) to the Citty of Corke, and dureing the
Rebellion continued in the English Quarters. That he never bore
Armes or acted against y*" Common Wealth of England ; that his
Grandfather, Edmond Spencer, and his ffather were both Protestants,
from whom an estate of Lands in the Barony of ffermoy and County
of Corke Descended on him, w*-^- dureing y* Rebellion yielded him
Little or nothing towards his releife. That y* s^- Estate hath been
lately given out to the Souldiers in satisfaction of their Arrearcs onely
upon the accompt of his pTessing the Popish Religion, w^^- since his
comeing to yeares of discretion hee hath as hee professes utterly
renounced. That his Grandfather was that Spencer whoe by his
writings touching y*^ reduction of y*' Irish to Civilitie brought on him
the odium of that Nacon, and for those Workes and his other good
Services Queene Elizabeth conferred on him y' Estate, \s^^' y- said
Wm. Spencer now claimes. Wee have alsoe been informed y' y*
Gentl is of a civill conversacon, and y' the extremitie his Wants have
brought him to have not pVailed over him to put him upon indirect
or evill practices for a lively hood. And if upon inquiry yo" shall
finde his case to be such. Wee judge it just and reasonable, and doe
therfore desire and authorize you y* hee be forthw*^ resstored to his

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estate, and that Reprisall Lands be given to y° Sould"^ elsewhere. In
y* doeing wherof Our satisfaccon wilbe y" greater by y* continuacon
of that estate to y' yssue of his Grandfather, for whose eminent
deserts and services to y= Common Wealth y' Estate was first given
him. We rest

Your loveing Frcind,

Oliver P.
Whiteliall, 2ytk March, 16^7.

From the Civil List of Ireland, 1657. (A. so6o.)
Precinct of Belfijst. Ministers.

Gilbert Simpson, Ballyclare,

William Jack, Aghadowey,

Donald Richmond, Hollywood,

Bamham West, Kihvarlin,

James Thelfall, Kilmore,

Cuthbert Harrison, ShankiU-cum-Lurgan,

Thos. Crawford, Uonegore,

John Barnes, Dromcree,

Robt. Hamilton, Killead, upon Sir John Clotworthy's

presentation being allowed of,
Clinton Maud, Antrim, upon the like presentation, ...

tohn Jones, Seago,
Lobt. Huetson, Ralhfriland,
Henry Levingston, Drumbo,
David Fearfull, Dnimkad,
Robt. Hogsyeard, iUllirashane,
David Bulhel, Jiallymena,
Anthony Kennedy, Temple pa trick,
John Douglas, Braid,
John Fleming, ISally,
John Ayton, Tynan, Co. Armagh,
James Shaw, Carnmoney,
Willm. Milne, Isle of Magee,
Francis Reddington, Upper Feagli,
Anthony Shaw, Ballywalier,
Michael Bruce, Killinchy,
John Shaw, Machrishohell,
James Fleming, Glenarm,
Robert Denner, Connor,
Willm. Swalden, Carlingford,
Edward. How, Charlemouni,

31 at ^100 each for the precinct of Derry.

io6 Old Belfast.

Schoolmasters.

Thomas Hasleam, Lisnegan'ey, ... ... £^o

John Cornewall, Belfast, ... ... 30

John Smith, Carrickfcrgus, ... ... 3°

John Newtone, Downpatrick, ... ... 20

Ralph Davenport, Antrim, ... ... 30

Lawrence Swarbreake, Lurgan, ... ... 20

Donnagh O'Dowda, Ballycastle, ... ... 20

George Savage, Armagh, ... ... 30

Civil Officers.

Robert Bridges, Collector of Revenue for the Counties of

Down, Antrim, and Armagh, ... ... j^ioo

Thomas Norris, Muster Master, ... ... 127 8

John Preston, Master of Packet Boat, ... ... 60

Rich. Johnson, Storekeeper at Carrickfergus, ... 40

Officers of Customs. Belfast,

Simon Spier, Waiter, ... ... ... ;£i8

Thomas Hodgkinson, ... ... ... 18

Pensioners.

Elinor Atkinson, ... 10s per week, ... £i(y

John Cooley, ... 2 6 ... ... 6 10

Thos. Rogers, ... 2 ... ... 5 4

Arthur and Martha Connolly, 20 between them, ... 52

Izabell Sommervill, ... 10 ... ... 26

Elizabeth Kingley, ... 2 ... ... 54

Hanniball Higgins, ... 2 ... ... 54

Eliz. M*Laughlin, ... 3 6 ... ... 9 2

Turlogh O'Lon, ... ... ... 5

John Dan. Shonbull, ... 10 ... ... 26

George Portus during his continuance at Ballyhurbert, 30

Robert Montgomerie, ... ... 12

" To our Right Trusty and dearly beloi'ed Brother Henry ^ our Ij>rd Lieutenant

of Ireland.

" Right trusty and dearly beloved brother and Councellor, our Lord Lieut, of
our Realm of Ireland, we greet you well. Whereas humble suit hath been made
to us by Sir Timothy Tyrrill, who married the daughter of the late Archbishop of
Armagh, for a lease of lands in Ireland, a matter sometime depending before our
late deceased father of blessed memory. We having taken the same into
consideration, with the regard we have to the memory of the said learned
Archbishop, we think fit, and do accordingly require you to suspend in the hands
of the said Sir Timothy Tyrrill the two next gales of rent for the lands he holds of
us in Ireland. And for your so doing this our Letters shall be to you a sufficient
warrant and discharge in that behalf. Given at our Court at Whitehall the/fry/ of
March^ i6^S.

" Your affectionate brother,

"Richard P.''

The Lord Deputy and Council having taken Mr. James Shaw's petition into
consideration, therein setting forth that he hath exercised his ministry in Cam-
money, in the County of Antrim, for two years past, and praying a competent
maintenance while he preaches the word there, as also the certificate of Mr. John
Hart and Mr. John Drisdailc, ministers of the Gospel, who represent th it the said

The Commonwealth and the North of Ireland. 107

Mr. James Shaw hath been tried by his brethren of the ministry, and is found to
be well qualified, not only in respect of his learning, but of piety and sobriety as
becomes a minister of the Gospel. It is thought fit and ordered that Mr. Shaw
may have salary of ;£ioo per ann. as long as he continues to preach to the
inhabitants of Carnmoney. // March^ 1638,

In the petition of Col. Arthur Hill in the behalf of the Lord Chichester and
himself, praying leave to transport (import) thirteen tons of lead, duty free, for their
own use. It is ordered that, pursuant to an Ordinance for the encouragement of
Adventurers to plant in Ireland, Col. Arthur Hill is permitted to transport the
quantity of thirteen tons of lead, the same being to be landed together at Carrick-
fergus without paying any customs or other publick duty.

Dublirty March, 1638,

Wm. Petty, Clerk of Council.

Reference upon Petitions. (A, /j.j

"Lord Deputy and Council,

"Upon consideration of the petition of the merchants and
inhabitants of Belfast, praying relief against the irregular and undue practices of
the officers there employed by the Farmers of the Customs. Ordered that the said
Farmers now in Dublin have a sight of the petition, and they are to take the
matter complained of into consideration, and to take care that the petitioners have
every redress therein as shall appear to be just and meet. And the said Farmers
are likewise to have regard that for the future ihe petitioners receive no needless
disturbance or any just cause of complaint." Dated 2^ June, 16^8.

Thomas Herbert, Clerk of the Council.

Upon consideration had of the humble petition of Mr. John Drisdaile, of
Portaferry, in the County of Down, and Mr. Robert Cunningham, minister at
Broad Island, in the County of Antrim, setting forth that the five ministers here-
under named are tried and approved of for holiness, and of conversation and
abilities to discharge the work of the ministry in a good measure, as also are men
of a peaceable disposition, and therefore praying that for their encouragement in
the Lord's work they may be received into salary. They are ordered to receive
;^ioo a-year each, and to be placed in the following places : —

Anthony Shaw, Ballywalter, Down.
Michael Bruce, Killinshy, Down.
John Shaw, Machrisohell, Antrim.
30 June, 1638,

James Fleming, Glenarm, Antrim.
Robt. Denner, Connor, Antrim.

(A, gi, Bermingham Tawe*^,)

The Comns. of Revenue to provide a house for Claudius Gilbert while
preaching in Dublin. lO^g, February.

Essex Digby. It is referred to the Committee for approbation of Ministers to
appoint one for Belfast in room of Essex Digby, removing to the parishes of
Gheashill and Ballycoman, in the King's County. 18 March, id^g.

Orders in Council, jo Novr., id^g.

Quaker books consigned to one Samuel Claridge found on perusal to have
an erroneous untoward spirit, denying external reverence to magistrates, con-
temning and disgracing ministers as antichristian, not ministers of Christ, but
dumb dogs, priests, and hirelings ; expressing much bitterness against learning,
maintaining perfection and freedom from sin in this life, also Popish and other
tenets contrary to sound doctrine. Books to be detained, not suffered to be
dispersed.

Old Belfast.

Uv THE Council for the Government and Management of Affairs )

IN Ireland.

Upon consideration of ihe petition of Patrick Adaire, Minister of the Gospel, .
and the certificate of Dr. Dudley Loftus, whereby it appears that the said Patrick
Adair, incumbent of the Parish of Caimecastle, hath no more left unto him for his
maintainance, according to the valuation made oti the return of the Commissioners
for visiting of parishes in the County of .Antrim, than sinty-ihree pounds per ann.
And for it appears by certificate of James Standish, Esq., that there was paid lo
the said Mr. Adaire the sum of nine pounds, and no more, as addition to his
allowance for the year ending the first of May, 1659, so as there remains due to Mr. '■
Adair the sum of twenty-eight pounds to complete his salary of one hundred 'j
pounds for the said year, and also thirty-seven pounds for the year ended the first
of May, 1660, making in all three score and five pounds. It is therefore ordered
that John Price, Receiver, do issue and pay unto the said Patrick Adairthe sum of ,
sixty-five pounds. And for so doing, this, together with his acquittance, shall be j'
sufficient warrant ; and for the future the salary of the parish of Camecastle must ,1
be made up one hundred pounds, the yearly salary allowed to Patrick Adaire. |
Ba/eii at Dublin the iglh day of May, 1660.

Broghill, Charles Coote, Wm. Hurv.

. account of 3obn Corr?, freeman of Belfast,
1654,

Bv THK Right Hon. the Earl ok Belmore, G.C.M.G., &c.

iOHN CORRY, who was admitted on the ist July,
1654, as a " m' ffree of the staple" of Belfast on the
I payment of a fee of £1 os. od., is beh'eved to have
been an immigrant into Ireland from Scotland, but
I at what period is not known. In an old MS.
I (from Sir W. Betham's collection) entitled,
1 History of the Co. Fermanagh, zvitk the antient
^families of the same, written 171S-19, &c.,* now
at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham (in the catalogue at p. 238, No.
13,293, Btthani MSS.), wc find it stated that —

" The family of Corry was formerly remarkable in Scotland for
their vallour, by y* frequent wars, which sometimes happened betweene
England and Scotland ; and beareth in their Coate of Arms, 'Argent
a sa/tt're Couped, Gules, etc' "

In The Historical Families of Dumfriesshire and the Border
Wars, by C. L. Johnstone, it is said, at pages 5 and 6 — " The second
son of Sir William de Carlile and Margaret Bruce was killed at the
battle of Durham in 1346, leaving one child, Susanna, who was
afterwards married to Robert Corrie. A charter in favour of his
brother, William de Carlile, from Robert Bruce, styles him the King's
sister's son ; and another, dated at Melrose, 1363, from David II., in
favour of Susanna Carlile and her husband Robert Corrie, caUs the
deceased Thomas Carlile the King's blood relation, and grants to his
daughter and her spouse the lands along the southern coast of
Dumfriesshire, which had belonged to her grandfather. The Corries
(the name is Celtic for hollow) were the hereditary keepers of the
castle of Lough Doon in 1 306, and a little later, owing to the marriage
above named, added greatly to their possessions in Dumfriesshire, &c.,

• Tbil MS. i> limilnl lo " Briliih nrniilirs. " ll l.> <uppi»«] to have bcrn N'otrs fur a History, which
Dl. Siimucl U'^ita, F.T.C.D., and n Fermanagh Landowner, inlended 10 wrilc.

no Old Belfast.

&c." Their estates, which included Gretna, and the ruins of the
ancient Redkirk and the celebrated I-ochmaben Stone, where treaties
were signed with the English, extended into Cumberland. " But
during the fifteenth century the rebellion of the Douglases involved
Dumfriesshire in a civil war. In 1484 George Corrie took the side of
the insurgents, and when they were defeated he was outlawed, and
part of his estates transferred to Thomas Carruthers, a loyal freeman
of Annandale. His brothers, Thomas and William Corry, for some
time retained a portion of the family lands, but subject to constant
forays on the part of their neighbours ; and in spite of numerous
lawsuits they could get no redress. Yet Thomas Corrie, of Kildwood
and Newbie, was of sufficient importance to be appointed in 1529,
with the King's treasurer and two Scottish knights, an arbiter in a
family matter between the Earls of Eglington and Glcncairn. He
married a daughter of Lord Herriot."

In the long run the Corrys appear to have lost or parted with their
landed possessions, and probably took to commerce. In 1639 one
"John Corrie" was the Provost of Dumfries. He may possibly have
been the father of the subject of this note.

As far as any record remains, John Corry, the merchant of Belfast,
had an only child James, who, as he was in his 62nd year in 1695
(the date on a picture of him by Pooley, now at Castlecoole),
must have been born in 1633 or 1634. John Corry *s wife's name was
Blanch, as shown by a Chancery Bill of 1656 — Jennett Petilla alias
M^Cully z\ John Corry and wife, and Hugh Eccles and wife ; entered
29th August — and it is said in the above-mentioned Bethavi MSS.
that " Coll" James Corryes mother was of the family of Johnston,
who derive themselves from the Marquess of Annandale in Scotland"
(/>., from his ancestors). From the allegations of the Chancery Bill, it
appears that the plaintiff's son, one Archibald Moore, deceased, had
been of Lisnegarvy, now Lisburn, and that John Corry and his wife
had been " of a long and familiar acquaintance with her son" (whose
widow had married Hugh Eccles).* This makes it appear probable
that John Corry had originally settled at Lisburn.

There is an entry in T//e Toivn Book of Belfast^ p. yy^ without date,
but probably of 1656, which shows that John Corry was residing there
at that time ; and this is followed by an engraving of his penny
token.

In 1656 he purchased an estate known as the Manor of Coole,
in the Co. Fermanagh, from the representatives of an Englishman,
Mr. Arthur Champion, M.P. for Enniskillen, who had lost his life in
the Rebellion of 1641, and who had purchased the property in 1639

• Vidt History of the Corry Family, by the Earl of Belmore, pp. xo, ii, 12.

Account of John Corry, 1654. 11 1

from Captain Roger Atkinson, the original Patentee, subject, however,
to a lease of it to Atkinson and Edith his wife, for the lives of both
and of the longest liver of them.

John Corry appears to have come to reside in Fermanagh soon
after acquiring his estate there. He had purchased with a defective
title, and disputes had twice to be compromised ; once with an English
creditor named Pembridge ; and again with a nephew of Arthur
Champion, of the same name. Mr. Corry was appointed a Commis-
sioner for levying subsidies in Fermanagh 8 November, 1662, and
on the 14 November, 1662, a Justice of the Peace for the Counties
of Fermanagh and Cavan. He served as High Sheriff for Fermanagh
in 1666.

It is supposed that Mr. Corry settled some of his relations about
him. A Mr. Laurence Crawford was, according to the Bcthavi MSS.y
his nephew. This gentleman, whose name appears amongst those
inhabitants of Fermanagh who were attainted by King James H.'s
Parliament of 1689, resided close to Castlecoole until 1731, successively
at Cavancarragh, Bonnybrooke, and Carrowmacmea, or possibly in
that part of the old townland of that name now known as Cloghtate.
It is not certainly known who his father was ; but there seems to be
grounds for supposing that he was the son of William Crawford, of
Ballymenagh, Co. Antrim, gent., of whose effects Mr. Corry took out
Letters of Administration in 1661, for the benefit of his widow, Ann
Pibles, alias Crawford, and her children. If this Ann were John
Corry 's sister, she must have had a former husband. Mr. Crawford
himself appears to have been a gentleman-freeholder on a very
moderate scale. But of his descendants (Crawfords) eight have been
High Sheriffs of Fermanagh.

Besides the Crawford family, there was another family of Corry
settled in Carrowmacmea. There is an unexecuted counterpart of a
lease of that townland at Castlecoole from John Corry, gent, to James
Corry, gent, dated 1662. Whether James and John were brothers, or
more distant relatives, cannot now be determined. But there is every
reason to suppose that they were related. The site of James's house
has been included in Castlecoole demesne since 1763. James had a
son John, who died in 1703, and who had three sons, mentioned in his
will, dated 13 November, 1701, viz., Alexander, James, and Charles.
Alexander had gone in His Majesty's service to Jamaica, and does not
appear to have ever returned; James married, 8 April, 171 1,
Margaret, one of the daughters of Laurence Crawford before-
mentioned, and had John, b. 171 1-2; Laurence, b. 1713-4, who
having m. Ann Welsh, d. 1799 — leaving James (who was probably the
person who, by his wife Sarah, had Laurence, b. 1794), and Alexander
(of Carrowmacmea), who d. 183 1, aged j6, leaving Alexander, who
emigrated to America about Anno domini, 1835 ; Robert, b. 171 5 ; Alex-
ander, b. 1 7 16, who was probably father of Alexander, of Killynure,
who d. 1834, aged 62; Leslie, b. 17 19; and another child, b. 1720.
Charles may have been the father of Charles and William Corry, to
whom Col. John Corry, of Castlecoole, made bequests in 1721. John

112 Old Belfast.

Cofty, of Carrovvmacmea, had a daughter' Ann (who married William
Nixon, 22 April, 1701). He himself married Ann Irwin, "a
widdow," on the 14 April, 1697.* Probably Captain Robert Corry,
who was killed at the battle of Newtownbutler, was his brother. It
seems more likely that he and his father,"!- or perhaps a brother, were
the James and John Corry who, in 1689, signed the address from
Enniskillen which the Rev. Andrew Hamilton took over to King
William and Queen Mary, than Capt. James of Castlecoole and his
son John ; as Captain James, at any rate, was apparently in England
in July and August, 1689 ; though it is possible that his son cither
remained in Ireland or soon returned to it ;* whilst John of Carrow-
macmea, in his will, bequeaths arrears of pay due to him by the
King, which looks as if he had been in the garrison at Enniskillen.
His will is witnessed by John Corry the younger of Castlecoole, and
William Crawford, which points to a relationship of the parties.

To return to John Corry of Castlecoole. It is not known when
his wife died ; but no mention of her is found after 1656. His son
James married Sarah, daughter of Oliver Anketill, Esq., of Co.
Monaghan, in or about 1663-4, being then about thirty years of age.
He had at least four children by her, viz., Sarah [whether baptised or
buried is obliterated], 25 Nov., 1666; John, whose baptismal entry in the
Enniskillen Vestry-book runs thus: — "1667. 8 Janr>'. Jo: son to
Capt. James Corr>'. Bapt:" ; Rebecca, married in 1698 to James
Moutray, M.P. for Augher ; and Elizabeth, married, probably in 1700,
to James Auchenleck, who had been attainted by the Parliament of
1689. It is supposed that at one time Captain Corr>' resided in
Enniskillen, very likely in a house next to the Market-house, which
Michael Cole (afterwards Sir Michael) had leased, 4 Oct., 1664,
to James Reyd, merchant, for 50 years, at 40 shillings a-year,
and a fine of ^^15 ; which lease is now at Castlecoole. This James
Read was admitted, on the 21st November, 1663, "a free commoner
and march^ of the Staple" of Belfast? He issued a penny token at
Enniskillen, the inscription on which is given in Canon Bradshaw*s
Enniskillen Long Ago, diS published in \\\q Historical and Arc/iaological
Journal, i8y2.\\

James Corry seems to have had a good deal to do with the manage-
ment of the estates (for there was one also in Monaghan) in his
father*s lifetime, and to have had part of them settled on himself in
1674, and again as to a moiety in 1679. His father covenanted not

• The Vcito'-Utx^k of Iniskeene (Enniskillen) pariNh, in P.R.O., is the i^uthority for most of the dates.
The Visiution Returns for Derryvullan is that fur the daic> of the burials of the two Alexander Corrys.

t The original James was elected a churchwarden of Enniskillen parish on Easter Tuesday, 3X April,
1674, as James Corr>', the elder, of Carrowmacmea.

{ In a MS. in Trin. Coll., Duh.. F. 4. 3. bcinR a list of " such Protestants of Irl: as are lately fled otit of
y* kingd: &c.," we lind " Curr>-: la: fcrmanaKh, W. 3. ch. : /800." If three daughters of Captain Corry weie
living in 1689, and accompanied him to England, then we may assume that his sun John remained in Ireland,
as he ser\-ed their Maje>ties during the ^«a^, as will be seen below.

S See The TtKvn Book 0/ Belfast, p. 26i.

n On oh^erse side— TAMES. Reid. MarcHANT, with a bell as the sj-mU. i?rwrw— IN. INeskilLin.

1663. with J. R. in centre.

Account of John Corrv, 1654, 113

to dispose of more than jf 50 by will, which accounts for there being
no trace of a Will or Administration. It is not therefore known when
John Corry died. A silver tankard, bearing his arms, has the hall-

mark of 168 1. At this time there was " a chief or" to the coat, which
shows that John was a cadet of some family, and which was discon-
tinued in the next century when the connection had become remote.
James Corry, who had received a commission of Captain from the
Duke of Ormonde, July nth, 1666, married again in Dec, 1683. The
Conststorial Court marriage license for " James Corry, Esq., of Dublin,
and Lucy Mervin, Sp'-" is dated Deer. 3rd. The lady was daughter
of Henry Mervyn, of Trillick, and granddaughter of Sir Audley
Mervyn. In the marriage settlement, John Corry is referred to as
having reserved power to make a settlement on ano[her wife. In
a Chancery Bill of 28 May, 1686, he is referred to as deceased.

At the beginning of the Revolution of 1G88, Captain Corry was
living at Castlecoole. He was a magistrate of the County Fermanagh.
When King James's Government resolved to place a garrison in
Enniskillen, the inhabitants became very uneasy ; and five of them,
named William Browning, Robert Clarke, William MacCarmick, James
Ewart, and Allen Cathcart* (afterwaids Captain), resolved to refuse
admittance to the troops, and set carpenters to work on the draw-
bridge. They sent notice of their determination to the surrounding
country. Captain Corry, " and indeed most of the inhabitants, were

114 Old Belfast.

in favour of admitting the soldiers."* M*Carmick went, on Dec. 13th,
to consult Gustavus Hamilton, of Monea. On his return, he was met
by a messenger from the Provost, Paul Dane, saying that " Mr.
Latournall came just now from Captain Corry," and had commanded
the carpenters to leave off working at the drawbridge, and begged
that he should send for his brethren, and dissuade them from denying
the soldiers entrance, and to provide them quarters. The whole
matter was debated over again. Mr. Hamilton gave his influence for
defending the town, and preparations for doing so were made, in spite
of Captain Corry. The latter appears, on the 17th, with Sir Gerard
Irvine (another magistrate), to have seen Mr. Browning riding into
the town at the head of a party of horse, to have had him seized, and
to have threatened to put him in gaol on a charge of bearing arms
against the Government. This was forcibly resisted by the towns-
people, who gave the magistrates notice to leave the town, under a
threat of being put in gaol themselves. Subsequently the latter were
willing to join in the defence, provided that Sir Gerard Irvine was
made Colonel of Horse, with Hamilton (who had been elected
Governor on the 13th) as his Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain Corry,
Colonel of Foot, which would have made him Governor of the town,
with Thomas Lloyd as Lieutenant-Colonel. This proposal was
rejected, and, according to Professor Witherow, Capt. Corry soon went
to England. Probably out of this incident was manufactured a charge
against him in the 49th paragraph of the Report of the Chichester
House Commissioners, on the forfeitures in Ireland and King William's
grants, as follows : — " Butt Inquiring into y*^ merrits of this gentleman,
It appears to us y' he gave no assistance to the Garrison of Iniskillen,
that in the town of Inniskillin he Publiquely declared he hoped to see
all those hanged that tooke up Arms for y* Prince of Orange, and his
house was burned in the said Garrison." When this appeared he met
it by obtaining a certificate, under the corporation seal, and the hands
of Mr. Letournall, Provost, and Messrs. D. Rynd, Jason Hassard,
Robert Clarke,"f' Hall, Roscrow, Paul Dane, and John Rynd, that he had
been very diligent in arming men for his late Majesties service ; that
he had raised a very good troop of horse and foot company, and
mounted and armed many of them at his own expence ; that by his
encouragement several of his Relations and friends followed his
example ; that he had furnished the garrison with considerable
quantities of supplies ; that his house in the garrison was not burnt,
but still continued in good repair ; that his house at Castlecoole was
burntj by the Governor's order, to prevent the Duke of Berwick from
posting himself there ; that they believed that the words alleged to
have been spoken by him *' were never spoke by him, for yt wee never
heard him charged with y*^ same till by the said Report, nor doe we
believe his principalcs lead him to any such expressions, having
always and upon all occasions showed himselfe forward to ser\'e their

• Professor Witherow.

t This name is that of one of the original five defenders of the town.

X In July, 1689.

Account of John Corry, 1654. 115

late Majesties, and to Incourage his friends & relations to doe ye
same ;" that his only son had served their Majesties throughout the
late war both in Ireland and Flanders ; that several of his relations
had lost their lives in the said service ; and that, if he had publicly
used such expressions, some of them must have heard him, or at least
heard of it aftenvards.

This reply to the Commissioners' Report is supported by the fact
that, after the Report was printed in Dublin, the Irish House of
Commons, on the 78th paragraph being read to the House, resolved,
nemine contradicentey " That all the Protestant freeholders of the
kingdom have been falsely and maliciously misrepresented, traduced,
and abused in a representation made of them in the said book. . . .
And that such misrepresentment hath been one of the great causes of
the misery of this kingdom." On the 28 September one of the
Commissioners, who was a member of the House, having been heard
in his place on a charge of being one of the authors of the paragraph,
and he having prayed the House to excuse him from making any
answer thereunto, it was ordered that he " be expelled this House."
On the 2 Oct. two other of his colleagues were censured. A third
being dead, " The House thought not fit to put any further question
on him."* The original Report is in the Public Record Office in
Dublin ; but no evidence is forthcoming there. James Corry had
received two grants in compensation for his losses. One was of a
heavily incumbered estate in his own neighbourhood. This grant
was voided on the ground that the former owner, Cucconagh
Maguire (who was killed at the battle of Aughrim) had had only a
life estate in it, and that the estate was not vested in the Crown.
This claim being admitted, it was restored to his son Bryan. The
other grant was of a mortgage of ;^2,ooo on lands in the County
Wicklow. This James Corry retained, but compromised it for ;^i,ooo.
His losses had been proved on oath to have been ^^"3,000 and
upwards.! His estate was worth ;^8c)0 or (as he himself put it)
;f 1,000 a-year.

After the war, James Corry lived for a time in apparently
straitened circumstances in England. His second wife appears to
have died there ; for in 1692 he re-married Elizabeth Harryman, who
possessed two tenements in London. They executed a deed of
separation in 1695. In 1692 James Corry was appointed Colonel of a
regiment of Horse Militia to be raised in Fermanagh, which county
he represented in the Parliaments of 1692, 1695, 1703, 17 13, and
171 5 to his death in 17 18, and at first seems to have been an active
member. His name appears in the list of persons attainted in 1689
both as of Fermanagh and of Monaghan. He was High Sheriff of
Fermanagh in 1671, and of Monaghan in 1677..I In 1696 he was
appointed a Deputy Governor of Fermanagh ; and Governor in 1705.

• Commons J oumats.

\ A full account will be found in Tlu History of the Manors of Finetgh and Cooie^ by the Earl of
Belmore, pp. 131-9.

t There was another family of Corr^* in Monaghan at the time, but no "James" amongst them. VieU
Mr. Shirley's History 0/ Monaghan (Corry of Rockcorr>').

ii6 Old Belfast.

His name is included in the Commission of Array of the Militia of
Fermanagh in 1702. After a disastrous fire in Enniskillen on the 2ncl
June, 1705, he was appointed by the Corporation, and other sufferers,
their agent for managing and obtaining what money might be
collected, as well by the Lord Lieutenant's brief as by voluntary
subscriptions, upon their behalf He appears, by a letter from William
King, Archbishop of Dublin, to Sir Michael Cole, dated from Tun-
bridge Wells, Aug. 12, 1705, to have pressed the Duke of Ormond
much on the subject, and the latter " had spoke to the Queen about
the affair, and was in hopes to obtain a brief in England." Colonel
Corry was himself a burgess of Enniskillen, having been sworn 2
Oct., 1694, and served as Provost in 1697. He held the office of
" Master of the Game." He built a new house at Castlccoole adjoin-
ing the old one about 1709 or 1710, and died an octogenarian at
Castlecoole, i May, 17 18.

He was succeeded by his only son, John, who had entered Trinity
College as a Fellow Commoner 3 May, 1685, but did not graduate,
and who sat (as Captain Corry) in the House of Commons for
Enniskillen in the Parliament of 1703-13. He served as High
Sheriff of Fermanagh in 171 1. In 1715 he was appointed Colonel of
a Regiment of Foot Militia in Fermanagh, his father on the same day
receiving a fresh commission as Colonel of a Horse Militia Regiment
He succeeded his father as member for the county in 1719. In 1701-2
he married Sarah, one of the co-heiresses of William Leslie, M.P., of
Prospect, County Antrim, a cadet of the house of Rothes,* and died
1 1 Nov., 1726. He was succeeded by his third but only surviving son
Leslie, then a minor. Leslie Corry was born on or about Oct. 15,
17 1 2, at Castlccoole, and entered Trinity College, Oct. 11, 1728, as a
Fellow Commoner. He graduated B.A. in 1732. He was High
Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1737, and M.P. for Killybegs 1739-40-41.
He was appointed Colonel of the Fermanagh Militia, in room of his
father, 11 April, 1740, and on May 17 a Deputy Governor of the
County. He died unmarried on or about Feb. 20, 1 740-1, aged 28,
when his landed property was divided between his eldest sister,
Martha, the wife of Edmund Leslie (afterwards M.P. for Newtown-
limavady, who took the name of Corry after Leslie, until his wife's
death about 1764), and Galbraith Lowry (afterwards M.P. for Tyrone),
the husband of his sister Sarah, and Margetson Armar the husband
of his sister Mary, who got Castlecoole. It was, however, all reunited
in 1779 in the person of Armar Lowry Corry, Sarah's only surviving
son, who in 1797 was created Earl of Belmore, and was great-
grandfather of the present holder of the title, who thus is seventh in
descent from John Corry, the freeman of Belfast.

• William Leslie was third son of Henry Leslie, Bishop, isl of Down and Connor, and afterwards of
Meatb, who was grandson of the 4th Earl of Rothes.

FAC'SIMILB OP JOHN GORKY'S SICNATURB.

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Hccount of StranmilUe, Kelfast.

By WILLIAM PINKERTON, F.S.A.

,R. EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, in his /leajunt
of the Territory or Dominion of Farney (London,
1845), erroneously thinks that this is the place thus
mentioned, under the date of 1635, in the manu-
script of Sir Wm. Brereton, published by the
Chetham Society. Brereton is clearly and evi-
dently speaking of Belfast, and he continues as
follows : —

"Near hereunto Mr. Arthur Hill, son and heir to Sir Moses Hill, hatha brave
plantation, which he holds by lease, which still is for thirty years lo cotne ; the
land is my Lord Chichester's, and the lease was made for sixty years lo Sir Moyses
Hill by the old Lord Chichester. This plantation is said doth yield him a .£1000
per annum. Many Lancashire and Cheshire men arc here planted, with some of
them I conversed. They sit upon a rack rent, and pay 5s. or 6s. an acre for good
ploughing land, which is now clothed with excellent com.''

Brereton seems to have been indefatigable in obtaining information
when in Ireland; but he falls into a slight error here. Arthur Hill was
a younger son, Peter was the name of the son and heir of Sir Moyses.
In the "Report of Works done" I find that the Commissioners, after
" leaving Lisnegarvey, and approaching nearer to Carrickfergus," thus
describe the "brave plantation " made by Sir Moyses Hill in 161 1 : —

"Came by a strong fort built upon a passage on the plains of Moylon, with a
strong palisade and a drawbridge, called Hilsborowe.

Within it is a fair limber house, walled with bricks, and a tower slated.

Some other houses are built without it, wherein are some families of English
and Irish settled. This fort was built by Moyses Hill, who hath a lease for sixty-
one years of the same, with a good scope of land, from Sir .\rthur Chichester."

When afterwards, during the Protectorate, Colonel Arthur Hill,
then the head of his family by the death of his elder brother Peter,
built a fort at Kilwarlin, he called it Hillsborough. The Commissioners
continue their report thus : —

" Within about a mile of Hilsborowe, by Ihe river of Lagan, where the sea ebbs
and flows, in a place called Sirandmellis, we found the said Moyses Hill in hand

ii8 Old Belfast.

with building of a strong house of stone, fifty-six feel long ; and he intends to make
it two stories and a half high, il being already about the height of one story, and to
build a good bawn of lime and stone about ; which lands are held by like lease as
Hilsborowe aforesaid."

A copy of this lease is in my possession. It is headed — " In the
Lower Claneboys, County of Antrim," and purports to be made the
eighteenth of April, 1606, between Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord
Deputy, and Moyses Hill of Hilsborowe, County Antrim, whereby
Sir Arthur demised to the said Moyses, his heirs and assigns, all that
and those the towns and villages or hamlets in the Territory or Tuogh
called Tuogh NefalJ, alias Tuogh Fall, and Myloune, viz, : —

Ballicollo, Ballydownmory, BalJindollaghan, Finahie, Ballyodrain,
Ballivally, BalJicromage, Ballimurchaiie, Ballinrisk, Ballimeighmorey,
Ballydownefin alias Balhnafeighan, Ballingarrie, Ballyminraher, and
Bally mister

The parcels of lands, or halftowns, or villages, of Millieton, Tulli-
manan, BalJiogman, Ardoine, BalJiardsallagh, and Balliallye. And all
other lands within the said territory, whose boimds and limits are, on
the South the main Bay of Knockfergus, and part of the Lagan river
falling into that Bay. On the Ea.st runs into the said Bay a small stream
from Altcomogh, between this Tuogh and the Tuogh Tinament, and
thence the meares are directly about half a mile between its lands and
Tuc^h Killelagh unto the very top of Slewtermore, and thence about
another half mile unto and through the Glyn of Barrattnagarrane,
which is a meare between this Tuogh and Clandermot, and thence
about another half mile directly by the top of the Glyn of Altmakeigh,
and thence about another half mile directly to a little mount near

Account of Stranmillis, Belfast. 119

Kanebeg Church, which is a meare between Tuogh Fall and Derry-
volgie, from which mount runs a small stream through or near the bog
Fowerglasse, and so directly into the Lagan river.

Also all those fishings and weirs of all kinds of fish in that part of
the Lagan river, lying from the point of land towards the sea, whereon
the little Fort of Mount Essex stands, westward so far as the river
extends in or by any of his lands.

Excepting all lands belonging to any Abbey, or other religious
houses, all Churches, Rectories, Chapels, or Vicarages, and the glebes
thereof; all timber and underwoods, hawks, advowsons, and mines
whatever.

To hold from the Feast of the Annunciation last past, for the term
of sixty-one years, at the rent of Ten pounds, English. Several duties
of salmon, &c., are to be also paid. And Mr. Hill is to be Seneschal
during the term of his lease within the said territory.

The boundaries of the lease are easily traced, the names of the
townlands have almost the same spelling as they are laid down in the
Ordnance Survey of the present day, and they formed the south-
eastern portion of the lands of Sir Arthur Chichester in Antrim. The
" small stream " was the Blackstafif, which with its affluent the Clowney
runs up into Altcomogh, the glen between the Wolf Hill and Devis.
Lendrick, in his map of Antrim, published in 1790, says that the
manner of spelling the names of townlands is quite arbitrary, and
depends on a variety of unfavourable circumstances, but we may
reSidily trace out the most of those. Ballicollo, Dunmurry, Bally-
dolaghan, Ballyfinaghy, Ballydrain, Cromac, Ballymurphy, Ballydown-
fin, are all well known at present. The names of all the townlands
next the hills have suffered little change, but those lower down next
the river have been swallowed up in the modern denominations of
Upper and Lower Malone. There is still an Ardoyne, and Balliard-
sallagh in the same district is most probably the modern Ballysillan.

We do not know when or by what bargain this lease came to a
termination. In 1635, when we last hear of it by Brereton, it had then
thirty-two years to run, but it must have been revoked soon afterwards.
For in 1639 an order of composition and agreement was made between
the Commissioners for Defective Titles on the King's behalf, and
Edward Lord Viscount Chichester, and Arthur his son and heir
apparent, whereby it being expressed that his Lordship and son should
have a good and sufficient estate granted unto them, their heirs and
assigns, for ever of the Manor of Belfast, they and Arthur Hill, Esq.,
surrendered all their grants, titles, and leases to Sir William Wraye,
Bart., and Henry le Squire, Esq., who were empowered to receive the
same by the King. And Henry le Squire, Esq., agent to Lord
•Chichester, having compounded with the Lord Deputy and the Com-
missioners JFor remedy of defective Titles, and paid the fine of £^67
17s. 6d., received a new grant from King Charles the First, dated at
Westminster, 20th of March, in the fifteenth year of his reign (1640).
In this grant I find —

"The capital messuage and demesne lands of Stroncmcllis, and two Com
Mills upon the Lagan."

I20 Old Belfast.

It is generally but erroneously supposed that Stranmillis took its
name from those mills— the mills on the strand — which is, as things
go, a very good derivation. But when Moyses Hill commenced to
build a house there, which he called Strandmellis, there was in all prob-
ability not a mill in all Ireland, saving a quern or hand-mill. My
friend, the eminent Irish scholar, Mr. Robert MacAdam, of Belfast,
informs me that he has no doubt the name Stran-millis, or Stron-millis
(as usually pronounced), is merely a slight variation of the Irish
Srutkan-iiiiiis, signifying "sweet stream." And I am confirmed in
the opinion that this is a correct derivation from a passage in the
above grant, where, describing the Eastern boundary of the Chichester
estates, it mentions " a small river called Shroghanmellie, alias
Shroanemellis, alias Strandmellis."

Arthur Hill was the immediate founder of the large estates now
enjoyed by the present Marquis of Hillsborough, and the younger son
of Moyses Hill, who built Strandmellis. Lodge, in his Peerage of
Ireland, an immense and praiseworthy undertaking, the usefulness of
which is partly destroyed by its many gross inaccuracies, probably
inseparable from such a work, tcils us that a

"Sir Robert Chichester, nephew to Arthur, Lord Deputy, being married to a
daughter of this family (the Hills of Devonshire), «e may reasonably presume that
Moyses Hill, ancesior to the Earl of Hillsborough, was introduced into this King-
dom by thai noble Lord in a military' capacity, and was, during the course of
O'Neill's rebellion in the North, one of those gentlemen who, in 1573, were
associated under Waller Uevereux, Earl of Essex, to suppress it."

Now there were a con.siderable number of O'NeiU's rebellions in
the latter part of the sixteenth century. The leaders of that dis-
tinguished family, being generally styled Princes of Ulster, on the
lucus a twH lucendo principle, Just as we speak of the King of Bonny
now-a-days, seem to have passed their lives either in making abject
submissions, or in open defiant rebellion to the Kings and Queen of
England ; but Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, was never employed
to suppress one of them. And the ridiculous absurdity of the passage
is rendered still more palpable when it is recollected that Sir Arthur

Account of Stranmillis, Belfast. 121

Chichester, afterwards Lord Deputy, did not make his appearance in
Ireland till the year 1 599.

Colonel Arthur Hill had the command of the Regiment of Horse,
consisting of 600 men, raised by Charles I., in 1 641, to serve against
the rebels in the North of Ireland. After the Kingdom had been
compelled to submit to the Parliament, he entered their service, and
was appointed a Commissioner of Revenue for the Precinct of Belfast,
and very ably he fulfilled that duty, both under the Parliamentary and
Protectorate Governments, until the Restoration. A letter from the
Council at Dublin to Colonel Arthur Hill, their Commissioner at
Belfast, is so characteristic of the period and the men, that I feel I may
make no apology for introducing it here.

" Dublin, 23 December, 1652.

"To Colonel Arthur Hill, to be communicated to the rest of our Chnstian
friends within his Precinct.

"Those unto whom the Lord hath in any measure, through grace, made
known his free, eternal, and unchangeable love, cannot but be sensible how He hath
of late manifested some displeasure against us, by continuing the pestilence in very
many of our quarters and garrisons, and stirring a vanquished and dispersed enemy
to an unusual resolution of attempting the surprisal of the fort and isle of Arran, and
therein to prevail, not by strength, but by reason of a strange spirit of despondency
which possessed him that commanded that place far unsuitable to his accustomed
temper in the judgment of those that knew him. Upon serious consideration of
those sad reproofs, we conceive it a duty incumbent upon us to mind those that fear
the Lord in this land to be frequent in prayer, and. earnest with Him to reveal his
will unto his servants, what those failings in them are which He so sharply witnesses
against. And that the Lord would renew unto his people a spirit of prayer and
supplication, a spirit of prevailing with the Lord, and of dependance upon Him :
That we may be delivered from a spirit of compliance with the enemies of God, and
that our hearts may not be captivated in the snares which they spread for us, lest
the anger of the Lord kindle against us. — Numbers xxv. 3. That we who in great
mercy are hitherto spared may cleave unto the Lord, and keep his Statutes and
Judgements, this being the wisdom and strength of God's people in the sight of the
Nations. — Deuteronomy iv. 45. That the Lord may not give us over to a spirit of
slothfulness and security in the management of the trust reposed in us, and that we
may take heed to ourselves, and keep our souls diligently, lest we forget the out-
goings of the Lord with us in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Those great things
which our eyes have seen God do for His people, and lest they should depart from
our hearts. — Deuteronomy iv. 9. Deadness of spirit, worldly mindedness, forget-
fulness of what the Lord hath done for us in the day of our affliction, and attribut-
ing much to the arm of flesh and wisdom of man, are sins that easily beset the
Saints and servants of God in the time of their prosperity, when their enemies are
scattered, and the powers of the earth laid down before them, and may be those
failings for which our merciful Father holdeth His rods of correction over us. And
therefore the better to stir up our hearts to this duty, we have thought convenient
to recommend the 30th day of this month to be observed in the duties and exercises
of fasting, humiliation, and prayer before the Lord, for the reasons and ends afore-
said, by all those whose hearts He shall draw forth for that duty, whereof we have
thought fit to give you this notice, and desire that all those that fear the Lord
within your Precinct may have notice hereof, and do what He shall put upon their
hearts in order to the solemn and serious working of Him upon that day or any
other time, that we may not despise the chastening of the Almighty, but hearken
unto His rod, and embrace His fatherly correction.

" Miles Corbet.

"Charles Herbert.

"John Jones."

Old Belfast.

The usurpers, however, were not by any means bad paymasters.
In 1650 the Parliament granted Col. A. Hill, "in recompence of his
many eminent services in Ireland," the sum of ;i^5,ooo. Again, in 1656,
the Parliament, "in consideration of his many public and eminent
services to the great furtherance and advancement of the public
interest," granted him a further sum of /^i,ooo ; they, however, added
that it was to be "a full satisfaction." He sat in the very same
Parliament for the Counties of Down, Antrim, and Armagh — a Parlia-
ment, by the way, the members of which were called and chosen by
Cromwell alone to represent the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland,
and Ireland. Moreover, in the same year, the Protector and his
Council, by letters dated Whitehall, 29th of April, granted him in
trust for his younger son, Arthur, about three thousand acres of

profitable land, with some wood and bog, in the territory of Kilwarlin,
in the County of Down. And Colonel Hill, being previously seized of
divers other lands in that territory, they were all erected into the
Manor of Hillsborough & Growde, with liberty to impark one thousand
acres in each, with power to hold fairs and markets, and all other
jurisdictions and privileges. One would reasonably have supposed
that, at least, those lands would have been taken from him at the
Restoration, but that was not the way affairs were managed then.
Though these were lands forfeited by men who, as they said, fought
for their King against the zealots who put him to a disgraceful death,
they also fought for their lives and the religion of their country
against the Scottish Covenanters, who, in the height of their cursed
intolerance, had solemnly sworn to extirpate them.

Account of Stranmillis, Belfast. 123

In March, 1660, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of
the Court of Claims, for putting into execution His Majesty's Declara-
tion for the Settlement of Ireland ; and, " being eminently active to
the hazard of his life and estate in his endeavours to restore the King,"
he was sworn a member of His Majesty's Privy Council, and had a
pardon, dated at Westminster, for all the crimes committed by him
during the course of the rebellion. And Colonel Hill, having built
within a few years, at his own charge, and upon his own lands, during
the rebellion, for encouragement of an English plantation and security
of the country, a considerable place of strength called Hillsborough,
fortified with four bastions, or flankers, commanding the chief roads in
the County of Down leading from Dublin to Belfast and Carrickfergus ;
His Majesty was pleased to consider that the surprise thereof, upon any
insurrection, might prove very prejudicial to his service, and how much
it would conduce to His Majesty's service and the safety of the country
that a guard should be placed in that fort for the security thereof; he
therefore granted a patent at Westminster for erecting it into a royal
garrison by the name of Hillsborough Fort, with a Constable and
officers to command it, to be called and known by the name of
Constable of Hillsborough Fort, and twenty warders to be nominated
and chosen by him ; the Constable to have the allowance of 3s. 4d. a
day, and the warders 6d. each ; and this office was granted to him, his
heirs and assigns, for ever.

Certificate written b^ H)aniel ©'IReill, 1663-

"These are to certify unto whom it may concern that Cap. Conn. Magneisse,
of Culcany, in the County of Down, to my knowledge (I being the Govemour of the
Towne of Trim), by vertue of a power from his Grace the Duke of Ormond (the Ld.
Luetent. of Ireland), upon the sevent day of August, or there about, in the year
1649, have seen the said Cap. Conn. Magneise, having then a foot company,
march with the said company through the Town of Trim aforesaid, unto the
Randezvous of the said L. Lt., as witnesseth my hand the 13th of October^ 166^.

"D. NEILLE."

petition of ipatrick IRussell, 1663.

" To his Grace James Duke of Ormonde^ Lord Lieutenant General and General

Governor of Ireland,

"The humble petition of Patrick Russell, of Coniamstown, in the County of
Down,

" In most humble manner sheweth that in the year 1641, when the rebellion
began in Ireland, your petitioner did unanimously adhere and contribute, to the
utmost of his power, to the British forces then in the County of Down, and con-
tinued so for some months there after. At which time, being oppressed and not
able to live in his place of abode, he, being no military man, was forced to desert
his dwelling for safeguard of his life, and lived in a sad and disconsolate condition
until the year 1649. At which time your Grace laid siege to Dublin, where your
petitioner was with your Grace, and from your Grace making manifest his constant
loyalty in that service, obtained the annexed order, to be settled in his estate of 300
acres of land ; by virtue of which order he was put in possession thereof by the
Right Honble. the Earl of Ardglass, then Governor of Lecale and Kinalerty, in the
County of Down, and ever since continued so possessed. In regard he made

124 Old Belfast.

appear before the Commissioners of the Revenue at Belfast, in the usurper's time,
inat he performed many good offices for the English and the Scotch in the first
year of the said rebellion, in saving their lives and goods to the number of six-
teen persons, who are now living, and ready to attest the same. That your
petitioner having put in his claim before the Honourable Commissioners of the
Court of Chancery, the same could not for want of time be heard, whereby his
innocency might be made appear.

" Wherefore your petitioner most humbly beseeches your Grace
that you will be pleased to favour your petitioner with your
Grace's certificate in his behalf for obtaining his pardon
from his Majesty,

"And he will ever pray, &c., &c."
" Dublin Cazlle, Derembrr jfh, l66j.
"We have duly considered the above petition, the reasons therein mentioned,
and our order of the 30 of July, 1649, which, upon good inducements, we then
granted to the petitioner's behalfe : and upon the whole do conceive him to be a
person capable of deserving his Majestie's gracious pardon.

" Ormonde."

Ver,

W. GODOLPHIN. (Pinkerton MSS.)

Hccount of Sir (Beorae "Kawbon.

Bv \V. PINKERTON, f.s.a.

GEORGE RAWDON was the only son of Francis
I Rawdon, and was born at Rawdon, near Leeds. Early in
I life he became secretary to Kdward Lord Conway, principal
I Secretary of State, and by him he was employed as an agent
I on his Irish estates. In 1639 he was Memberof Parliament
I for the town of Belfast, and in November, 1641, being -Major
I of Lord Conway's regiment o( horse, he successfully de-
I fended the town of Lisnegarvey, or Lisbum, against Phelim
I O'Neill and 8,oco Irish rebels. Aftcrserving with distinction
' duringthe war of the Rebellion, when Ireland wascompletely
subdued by the Parliament, he took oRice under it as one of the Commissioners of
Revenue of Ulster, and, in that capacity, he was exceedingly useful in reducing, as
far as he could, the Parliamentary Composition imposed upon Lord Conway's estate.
A great number of very interesting letters of his 10 Lord Conway are in the
Record Office. After Cromwell died he prudently turned towards the rising sun of
the Restoration, and, in 1660, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for
executing his Majesty's Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland. In 1665 he
was created a Haronet of England, under the title of Moira, in the County of
Down. Not a syllable of his service lo the usurpeis is hinted in the accurate
peerage book of Lodge, but it says that "as he had the strongest disposition to be
as useful as possible to his countrj', so he had an ample fortune which enabled
him to show it, whereby he gained the greatest respect and esteem."

He does not seem to have been so lucky under the Protectorate as his
brother Commissioner, Col. Hill ; thouyh lie performed his duty well and ably, he
does not appear to have received any more than the mere salary of his office. But
at the Restoration he received many grams under the difTerent Acts of Settlement,
in the counties of Down, Dublin, Louih, and Meath ; and, for the sum ai £,100, he
was allowed to pass patent of 2,078 acres in thebarony of Upper-] veagh,in the county
of Down. It is thus set forth in the patent of date 1681 : " Km^ James I.,out of his
great desire and care to plant the province of Ulster, was graciously pleased, in the
eighth year of his reign, to grant tetters patent, under the great seal of Ireland, for
the passing of all the lands lying within the country, then commonly known by the
name of I veagh, and for the dividing, settling, and planting thereof, to several free-
holders of the Irish nation, in hopes the said lands might thereby be nuiaured, and

Account of Sir George Rawdon. 125

better inhabited ; and did, among other grants, pass by letters patent, bearing date
the same year, fourteen sessioughs, or half towns, within the territory of Moira, in
the country of Iveagh, to Murtagh Mac-Terlagh O'Lavery of Moira : but notwith-
standing that he and his grandson, Hugh O'Lavery, enjoyed the same, yet neither
of them made any considerable plantation thereupon ; and in 1639, Hugh conveyed
a great part thereof to several persons, and in 1641 forfeited the rest by rebellion,
which, by the commissioners of claims for satisfaction of arrears of pay to officers
and soldiers, were sold (as above) to Sir George Rawdon ; being a person that had
performed very loyal and acceptable services to the crown, and had bestowed much
costs and pains to improve and plant the said lands, had built a market town there-
upon at Moira, which was inhabited with conformable Protestants, and having been
decreed to, and purchased many other lands, they were erected, at his suit, into the
manor of Moira, where he had obtained a licence, in 1669, to hold a Thursday
market, and four yearly fairs on the Thursdays in Easter week, after 24th of June,
after the ist of August, and after the 29th of September. — And whereas he had pur-
chased divers towns and lands in the territory of Kinelearty, within the said county,
and for that some of these lands were mountainous, and others much encumbered
with rocks, underwoods, and bogs, whereby the Irish in the rebellion, and thieves
and tories, did in former times frequently harbour there ; and that of late, those
lands, by his care and cost, were become well inhabited and planted, he having
built two mills there, put the parish church in repair, erected a considerable town,
and in the middle thereof had set out a large market place, which was paved, and
made fit for market and fairs to be kept there, and which new-built town was situate
in the very centre of the county ; the king therefore created the premises into the
manor of Kinelearty, with a demesne of one thousand acres— liberty to empark the
like quantity ; to keep courts, appoint seneschals, hold a Thursday market, and two
fairs at the town of Ballinehinch on first February and twenty-ninth of June, to
continue three days each, and many other privileges."

He died in the eightieth year of his age, in August, 1684, and was buried with
great magnificence at Lisbum. Sir John Rawdon, the fourth baronet and great
grandson of Sir George, was, in 1750, advanced to the peerage by the style
and title of Baron Rawdon of Moira ; and he was further advanced to the dignity
of Earl of Moira in 1762.

In the print room of the British Museum is a small engraving of Sir George
Rawdon, with the following inscription : — " The true and lively pourtraiture of that
valliant and worthy patriot and captaine, S^ George Rawdon, knight and barronet,
i€)tatis suae 63." R. IVhtte^ delin. et sculp. The armorial bearings used by the
elder branch of the family are placed within an oval beneath the portrait. They
arc : — Quarterly, i. Argent, a fess between three pheons sable, Rawdon; 2. Argent,
a fess between two lions passant regardant sable, Folifootj 3. Argent, a chevron
between three hinds' heads erased gules, Beckivith; 4. On a fess three escallops, a
canton ermine. On an inescutcheon the badge of a baronet of England. Crest, a
pheon. Motto — " Nisi Dominus frustra."

Extracts from Letters of George Rawdon, 1666.

George Rawdon, writing to Lord Conway from Dublin, 12 May, 1666 : —

" Another sad fate is befallen in the North. 1 believe the one half of the cattle
in Antrim and Down are dead of the murrain ; corn double the price it was a
month past, and no milk."

The same, 18 of May. All in the way of beggary. Murrain ; no trade, &c.

He writes — " I had letters to-day from my wife, who is well, with all the
children. The great race at Lambeg for the plate was run the last week by the
Earl of Donegall's Barb, Will Hill's Blink, and Major Richardson's Wingfield, who
came first and the Barb next and Blink last ; the Lo. Massareene was there, but
did not put in his horse Tangier."

The same, i June, Lisbum.

" I gave your Lordship notice in my last of the great mutiny, or rather
rebellion of the garrison at Carrickfergus, which my Lord Lieutenant apprehended
to be of such dangerous example that he on the sudden took a resolution to come
himself in person to reduce the mutineers, and shipped away 400 of the Royal

126 Old Belfast.

Regiment wiih the Earl of Airan and Sir Wm. Flower, which had so quick n

Kssage by sea that they were at Carrickfergus before his Grace reached Hills-
rough by land. He came ihe first night to Dundalk, and on Sunday evening
last to Hillsborough, being his second day. As we were ready for church, Will
Hilt, who rode all night, came to me and told me the news ; so 1 made what pre-
paration 1 could in 3 hours' lime, and met his Grace at Uromore with full 200 horse
of our neighbours, which were many of them well mounted, and being orderly
drawn up made a great show, and were very much spoken of by the company, and
his Grace has since often mentioned them, and asked me if they were Killuha
men. There came with him the Earls of Drogheda and Fingall, Viscts. Dun-
gannon, Dangan, Taafe, and several Knights and Gentlemen, and the lifeguard of
horse, and all the troops in his were ordered thither. The Earl of

Donegall's and Capt. Hill's were lying about Carrickfergus before. The Marquis
of Antrim, the Earl ofClanbrassil, and Bishop of Down came hither to meet him,

" His Grace came from Hillsborough on Monday morning, and passed through
this town to dinner to Belfast : whither 1 went after him and the company that were
here with me, and that evening the Earl of Arran came up to Belfast and gave
account of these passages. On Tuesday the Lord Lieutenant and all his train
went to Carrickfergus, and being the king's day, after solemnity in the church and
dinner past, his Grace directed me and the Judge Advocate to take the pains to
take examinations of all particular passages, and of the ringleader especially, to

prepare them for a martial court the next morning, which was done, and by
commission from his Grace the Court was held, the Earl of Donegall being
president, in his Lordship's house, and the mutineers brought bound, two together,
and heard their charge drawn up by the Judge Advocate, Doctor Cook, and con-
fessed their guilt and begged mercy on their knees, and after they were withdrawn
into the court the Court voted them all guilty of death for breach of several Articles
of War, and considered the examinations taken the day before, and picked out 10
that were the chief and actors, and voied that the Earl of Donegall aiid Arran

might be pleased to interceed with his Grace for sparing the lives of all the rest,
except those 10, which he granted, and all the rest are, or will be, shipped in 2 or 3
frigates here and sent to the West Indies, and 1 suppose the 10 were hanged yester-
day. The four Captains— Col. Mayart, Fortescue, Butler, and Reversham— are
without companies ; they were much blamed, being all absent but Capt Butler, and
the 4 Companies are still in Carrickfergus till others be ordered thither.

"After, on Tuesday, his Grace and all his train came hither, about 8 of the
clock, where they lound supper ready j 2 long tables in both dining-rooms, and all
the chambers ready for lodging, and good wine of all sorts ; and were all well accomo-

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127

dated here in good chambers in town and seemed well pleased with their
entertainment, and my Lord Lieutenant, at breakfast, drank your lops, health in a
great glass of claret, and commanded me to tell you so.

"But my disappointment of venison was so great that I cannot forgive the
keeper; he had orders on Mondaymorning to kill a buck at [Portmore], they being
very fat there, and shot and hurt one and lost it, and shot again another and missed,
$0 that their great expectations of fai venison was disappointed, and especially
his Grace that had none this year at Dublin. I am so ill pleased with this knave,
to take upon bim 10 be so good a woodman, that if your Ip. had not sent him
over I would presently give him his pass. 1 waited on his Grace and the company
beyond Moyherelin, and upon the way hither (which is here very good roadway)
bis Grace expressed bis delight to see such a country, and was well pleased and
all his train."

Ormond writes from Dublin, 6 June : —

"After my departure from Carrickfergus nine of the mutineers were executed.

"Their officer? alsoand all others will hereafter be more carefull in the govern-
ment of their companies by the inconvenience befallen these, their companies
being for the present disbanded. They are men of unquestionably good affections,
and were only unfortunate in having worse men than others, and being absent all
(but Capt. Butler) when the mutiny began by leave from the Earl of Donegall,
Governor of the place."

In a communication that the Earl of Donegall makes, he says that one Proctor
Dillon and one Williams were Ibe ringleaders, Dillon was killed. (Pinkertoi MSS.J

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3nrolle& 1669.

grant from King Charles L, in virtue of the Commission
for remedy of defective Titles, dated at Westminster 20th
March, 15" Car. L, and for the fine of ^467 17s. 6d., paid
by Edward Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus, and
Arthur Chichester, his son and heir apparent. In con-
sideration also of Che many good, true, faithful, and
acceptable services to the Crown, performed by them and
by Arthur Lord Chichester of Belfast, deceased brother of
the said Lord Edward, and of their surrender of Lough
Neagh, alits Lough Sidney, alias Lough Chichester, with
the soil and fishing thereof, and the Wears and Fishings in
Toome, Co. Antrim, and of the Advowson of the Church of
of the Church of Ballyprior, in

(be River of Bann, ,

Magberahohill, and the Rectory and Adv

128 Old Belfast.

Island Magee, said County, to the King, his heirs and successors. And pursuant
to Privy Signet, dated at Hampton Court, 24th September, 1638, which sets forth
that Lough Neagh, alias Lough Chichester, which had been granted by King James
to Lord Chichester, was so commodious for upholding the Fishing of the Bann, that
the Governors and Committees of the London Plantation there were necessitated to
farm the same at £100 by the year, which Fishing of the Bann was now come to his
Majesty's hands. And the Lord Chichester, by Henry Le Squire, Esq., his Agent,
having compounded with the Lord Deputy and the Commissioners for remedy of
defective Titles to make the surrender, his Majesty directed that surrender to be
taken, and this grant to pass of all other the Estate whatever belonging to his Lord-
ship and his son Captain Arthur Chichester, as also the Rectorial Tithes of the
Parish of Shankhill, alias Belfast, with the Advowson of the Vicarage of the same
Church in lieu of the said surrenders ; and likewise an Annuity, Pension, or yearly
Rent Charge of £^0 English, reserving to them and their heirs liberty to fish for
and take Salmon in and upon the said Lough for the provision of their house or
houses; and also excepting to them and their heirs all the Eel Wears and Eel Fishings,
or places to take eels in, at, or near Toome, which formerly were not demised or
granted to the City of London ; yet so as such Orders, Laws, and Rules as shall be
from time to time prescribed and set down generally on the King's behalf for the
Fishing of the Bann be observed by them and their heirs both in their Salmon and
Eel Fishings. And, lastly, that the whole Island Magee be united into one Parish,
and all the Rectorial Tithes within the Island disposed of some way for the benefit
and behoof of that Church and the College there, for bettering the means of the
Vicar and the finding of Lectures, as should seem most meet.

Co* Hnttittt. — There is therefore Granted to the said Lord Edward and
Arthur, and to the Heirs and Assignes of the said Arthur, for ever, of the entire
Castle or Mansion House, Park, Demeasne, Buildings, Site, Mills, Manor, Town, and
other the Hereditaments of Belfast, All Manors, Castles, Towns, and Lands of and
in the Territories and Precincts of Lands of Toughnefalle, Toughmoylone alias
Mylone alias Malone, Tough-Tinament, Carnenony alias Carnemony, Cametall,
Monkesland, and Ballyhone, as followeth.

The capital Messuage and Demeasne Lands of Stronemellis, and two Com
Mills upon the Lagan.

The Towns, Lands, and Hereditaments of Ballycollo, Ballydownemorrie alias
Ballydownemurrie,with a Com Mill there ; Ballyndollaghane alias Ballydollaghane,
Fumanghie alias Ballyfinagie, Ballyrodrane, Ballinvalley, Ballycromage alias
Ballycromoge, Ballyamarchane alias Ballymurfey, Ballinofeagh alias Bally-
nefey, with a Water Mill and a Fulling Mill there ; Ballinriske, Ballymeighmonie
cdias Ballymonie, Ballydownefin alias Ballydownefeyne alias Ballynafeighe, Ballen-
garrie, Ballygarmarline, Ballinrahane alias Bally vallyenerasure, Ballymister alias
Ballyvister, Killyetan alias Ballyetan afias Ballyetigan, Tulloghmanane, Bally-
ogaman alias Ballygaman, Ballyquoite, Ardoyne alias Ballyardone alias Ardun,
with a new Forge there ; Ballyardsallagh, Bally vallie alias Ballynvallie alias Tough-
managh, Clownie and Cullantrie in Toughnefall and Toughmoloyne.

Co. Hntrim*— The Towns and Lands of Ballycoolegalgie alias
Ballycoolegallagie alias Ballyroculgalgalgie, Ballycloyne, Ballycullantrie, Ballin-
gallinie, Ballyfoughnamonie, Ballynaneigure aias Ballyneginure alias Balline-
gwire, Ballymullaghimanye, Ballymissilane a'ias Ballysillane, Ballylegaile alias
Ballyleganile alias Legeneile, Ballycrosse, Itinicester alias Itiniskall alias Ought-
marakneskall, Oughterard 3 Qr. Ballioghagane, Ballystei^heoghe-Inerle alias
Ballyskeigh-Inerle alias Skeoganerle, Ballylissitollard tf//Vzj Lissitillard, Ballyeden-
derry and the Fort, Gallynaghe, Ballylissegalrome, Ballyircustillie alias Bally-
cloghnacastallie alias Cloghcastle, Ballingowlane alias Ballygolane, Ballykeile alias
Ballyceele, Ballylishigalriea alias Ballygalryan, Ballygorinward alias Ballygallyne-
ward, Ballyglangoromelie alias Ballygormelie, Ballyarfekille and Ballyvardinue
alias Ballyvardune alias Ballyvaston alias Ballyvastony, in the Tuogh-Tinament.

Co. Hnttint. — The Towns and Lands of Ballyvincollard alias Ballyrin-
collard alias Ballyrancollard, White Abbey, Le Coole alias Ballycoole, Cloghny-

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costallie, Ballyvasconine, Gallynagh, Drommore alias Dromore, Bally do wnanine
aiias Dunany alias Downany, Ballycoole, Ballyardnesoole alias Ballyardnesole
ttlias Bally necregity, Ballyhenry, BallymuldufTe a/i'iu Bally-Imulduffe, Ballymesioe
aiias Ballyvesey, Bally lagh line alias Carrickfeme, Ballycurraghfamey alias Bally-
chone alias Ballyhone, Le Earle's Meadow alias The Earl's Mosse, Ballynemanagh
»liai Le Grange of Ballynemanagh, Cloghloghortie, Ballykeilc, Camecall and BaJly
Jordan alias Jordansiowne in Camemonie, Camecall, Monkesland, and Ballyhone
mlias Bally- John.

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The Rectory of ihe Church or Chapel, and the Advowson, Presentation, and
Patronage of the Vicarage of Senekill, alias Shankill, alias Albedevade, alias
Belfast, parcel of the possessions of the late Monastery or Abbey of St. Patrick of
Down. With all other Hereditaments, spiritual and temporal, within the said
Territories or Tuoghs, whose bounds are described in the Patent, viz. i —

Towards the entire South part of the said Territories lye the Bay of Carrick-
fergus and the River Lagan ; and to the East part of the said Territories or parcels
of Land thereof, and the Lands of Carrickfergus, runs a small River beginning
near the water-fall Fasermeagh alias the Deer's Land, and running by or near the
old stone house called Cloghanoghertie towards the West from the same, and also
from another small River called Silver Stream towards the East, and from Faser-
meagh aforesaid the Meares extend directly between the said Territories and the
Tnogh of Ballynlynny about quarter of a mile near the top of the Glynne of
Altballymanagh, and so by the midst of a small Bogg there; and from thence
about half a mile between the said Territories directly to the top of Carneshalgagh
Hill ; and thence about quarter of a mile directly to a small Bogg at the top of
the Glynne of Al ton b reed a^h, and so through the middle of the small Bogg there ;
and thence about quarter of a mile to the top of Lisselinch Hill, and thence
through the middle of the Bogg or Wood of Moymerlagh, near said Lisselinch j
and from thence about quarter of a mile to an old Stone called Ballyrobart, and
thence for about quarter of a mile directly through the midst of the Bogg called
MonymuUigine by the Ford of Aughballymesline ; and from thence about half a
mile directly by the middle of the Bogg of Monarhohill ; and so between the said
Territories and Ballinlynny aforesaid the Meares extend to the old foundation
Stone called Cloghballybascon tlias Ballyvaston ; and from thence about half a
mile directly to the Fall of the River called Assdermolt ; and thence about half a
mile directly through the Ford of Annaghdullagh ; and thence about half a mile

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Old Belf.wt.

between the said Territories and the Tuogh of Killelagh directly by the top of
Altomagh Glynne; and thence about half a mile fay the upper pari of the Mountain
Marsh to the top of the Hill of SlughCmermore ; and thence about half a mile
between the said Territories and Che Tynament of Clandemiott directly over the
Plaines and through the tniddle of the Glynne of Bally alt nagarran alias Bar-
raltnaragan ; and from thence about half a mile directly to the top of another
Glynne called Altmakeigh ; and thence about half a mile over the Hill to and by
the Highway of Ballymogerlie ; and ihence about another half-mile between the
said Territories and Derryvologie alias Fealoagh directly to ihe Mountain of
Cooleanbeg, leaving the Glynne of Alchoranc in the said Territories and parcels
of Land ; and from the said Hill runs a small River, called Shroghanemellie alias
Shroanmellis alias Strandmellis, and runs between the said Territories and the
Tynament of Derryvologie aforesaid, till it falls into the Moor or Bogg of Foore-
glasse, and so through the midst and from the South part of the Bogg issues

another small River, which runs between ihe said Territories and Tynament into
the Lagan, which River of the Bay of Carrickfergus are the South Boundaries and
Meares of tbe said Territories and Parcels of Land. All the foregoing Premisses
created into the Manor of Belfast, with Courts Leet and Baron.

Also the entire Fishing of the River Lagan, the Soil, Wears, Customs, and
Duties of the said River. The Ferry of Belfast.

Co. Htltrfnt.— The impropriate Rectory of Entroya edias Antrym, which
consists inter alia of two parts of all the Tithes of Com and Hay of the Towns
and Hamlets of B all ygal Ian trim, Ballycregiddery, Ballyconmagh, Ballywanly alias
Bally winenise alias Ballyaltahunching, Ballynecrigie, BaJIyberan, Ballyrannell,
Bally rath begg, Ballymullen, Ballycroskenan, Ballycallynordolly, Ballyaltwonisie
alias Ballyattywonisy, Ballyantrym, Ballykeile, Ballynonnullen, and Ballyn-
clasonbegg, with the Advowson and Presentation of the Vicarage thereof. The
Estate of the late Abbey or Monastery of Woodbume oAVu Goodbome.

Confirmation of the Chichester Patents. 131

Co. Htttrfnt. — The church or impropriate Rectory of Ballynlinny in
Tuogh-Ballynlinny, which consists of two parts of the Tithes of Com and Hay,
within nine Townlands in the County of Antrim, with the Advowson and Presenta-
tion of the Vicarage. The Estate of said Abbey. The Towns and Lands of
Ballinmullie, Killgreelie cdtas Killgrill, Ballinlinny, Lisnelinsenem alias Lisnelinchie
alias Lisneseven^ Ballivalter alias Ballywalter, Ballyalgakie alias Ballycogegy
alias Ballygagy, Cloghballyrobert alias Ballyrobert, Ballynephellitt alias Bally-
nepellodie, Ballyhartway alias Ballyhartfield, Ballytemple, Ballypatrick alias
Templetowne alias Templepatrick, Ballyrickmore alias Rickamond, Ballyturb-
vemegno alias Tubbenegnowe, Ballykillm'=kee, Ballycoosen alias Ballychoosin,
Ballymullaghbritt alias Mullaghbritt, Ballychone alias Bally-John, Ballygeolagh,
Ballyonemegaile alias Ballyvingell alias Vingall alias Stomgall, Ballyvoage alias
Ballycasland, Ballyshradinmarish, Stradnemorsligh alias Stradenemollyshagh,
Ballyneelogh alias Ballyneglogh alias Stradenomemyagh alias Stradenemoynagh,
Ballyotoge, Camegraine, Camenanie, Ballybames, Bamish alias Ballybarnesse,
Brusk alias Bruslee, Moyvliske, Bally martin and Ballyclocarduflfe alias Bally-
clocanduffe alias Cloghanduffe, with all their Appurtenances in the Territory or
Tuogh of Ballynlinny, and also that entire Territory, with all the Members and
Hereditaments therein. All these Premises, from the Rectory of Ballynlinny
inclusive, and the Rectories of Templepatrick, and Moyvliske, created the Manor
of Ballynlinny, with Courts Leet and Baron.

Co. Hntrint. — The Towns and Lands of Ballynehowlane, Bally-Edward,
Ballyhone, Ballynelige, Ballymullaghfcnro, Ballycregenconboy, Ballynenowlane,
Ballymullnemossagh, Ballyrollo, Ballyrickard, Ballylissetlady, Ballycugelie, Bally-
follard, and Ballyglin, within the Territory or Tuogh of Magheramorne, with that
entire Territory', and all the Members and Hereditaments thereof

Co. Hntrint. — The Towns and Lands of Ballyistin, Bally narranie, Bally-
nowe alias Ballynue, Ballydowaghe, Ballyardmagh, Ballyardmaghbreegie alias
Ballyarducabreegy, Ballyodowennewe alias Ballydowemowe, Ballyloghanmore,
Ballydownedrewe alias Ballydonedrou alias Ballydowndren, Ballycorra, Bally-
nevalla alias Hillynevely alias Ballyneboly, Ballynebantro, Ballycollan, Bally-
lissenuskie alias Lissneliskie, Ballydrumneddarogh, and Ballyboy alias Ballyvoy,
with a Fulling Mill and a Com Mill there ; Ballylathnalarke, Bally bracon side,
Ballyaltwicke, Ballytressnaitt alias Ballytrassnaiott, Ballynesheale, Ballymoden
alias Ballymoieden, Ballynealbanagh, Ballyclogher, Ballynesavage alias Ballysavage,
Ballynemeragh, Tubbernegill alias Ballytubbergill, Ballynewooddoge, Bally-
clewarde, Ballymoy, Ballyhowell, BallyKilbride alias Kilbride, Ballyrashee alias
Rashee, Ballyrashymorc, Ballyrashybegg, Ballygoghry alias Ballygogie alias
Ballycogie, Ballybealaghclare rt/Zaj Ballyclare, and a Com Mill; Ballyslowgromagh
alias Ballyslowcronagh, Rathmore alias Ramore, Bally-Ilandragh alias Ilandreagh,
Ballygallantrim alias Ballygallantrem, Ballycreighderry alias Ballycregyderry,
Ballycomagh alias Ballycomna, Ballygonie alias Ballygowen, Ballynememis, Bally-
necreggie alias Ballynecreigh, Ballyberom alias Ballyberran, Ballydownedrim,
Ballyrannell, Ballyrathbegg alias Rabeg alias Dromagolgan, Ballymullen, Bally-
croskennan, Ballytollynardolly alias BallytullynarduUie, Ballyaltinvinley alias
Ballyaltinvinsey alias Altahunshinagh, Ballyantrym alias Balliantrim, Ballykeile
alias Ballykeele, Ballynormullen, Ballynelossanbegg alias Ballynelassanbegg,
Ballycuggerie, Ballyardmoydoiegmore alias Ballyardmoydeegmore, Ballyardmoy-
deigbegg alias Downagur, with a Fulling Mill and a Com Mill there ; all in the
Territory or Tough of Moylinnie, and that entire Territory.

Co* Hntrim* — The Towns and Lands of Ballyhulruske alias Ballytulruske
alias Tullaruske, Ballym*^award, Ballygennenagroath alias Ballydromnegreagh,
Ballydonnaghie, Ballykillerodan, Ballyboddar, and Ballyknockneferren, all within
the Territory or Tinament of Clandermott, and that entire Territory.

COt Hntttnt* — The Rectory, Church, or Chapel of Glynne, and the
Advowson, Presentation, and Right of Patronage of the same Church in the

132 Old Belfast.

Territory of Magheramome. These Premises, with the Rectory of Antrim
previously mentioned, the Abbey of Disert, the Rectories of Duryen and Dromald
on the other side, created the Manor of Moylinny, with Courts Leet and Baron.

The Rectory or Chapel of Moyvlusk, containing two third parts of the Tithes
thereof. The Rectory of Templeton alias Templepatricke, containing two thirds
of the Tithes thereof. The Estate of the late Priory or Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem. The Advowson and Presentation to the said Church of Temple-
patricke.

An old religious House called the Friery of Masserine, with the Site and
Appurtenances thereof, and the Town and Lands of Ballydonaghy in Ederdaowen
upon the Six- Mile Water belonging to Masserine.

A parcel of Land, situate on the South Bank of the River Owen vie we alias
Six-Mile Water, near the House of Massarine and thereto belonging, late occupied
by the Garrison there, and is near surrounded by an old Foss or Ditch, extending
from Loughneagh near Owen vie we. The Abbey or Monastery of the Virgin
Mary of Disert alias Kells, with the Site, Edifices, Orchards, Gardens, &c., thereto
belonging.

The Towns and Lands of Ballytocallymullen alias BallycuUymullan alias Kells,
Ballym<^Evagh, Ballickneldrome alias Ballickneldrone alias Kildrome alias Kells,
Ballyfuguske alias Ballyfugask alias Ballyfuguskie, Ballycreagh alias Creagh alias
Ballynecreggie, Carwacke, Ballyvillie, Hanultie alias Hamlete alias Avultie alias
Ballylisnaquingally alias Lissneguggie, and Ballyfermsures a//Vw Ballynesures alias
Ballyferensure, with all the Tithes of these Lands.

The Rectories and Advowsons of the Vicarages of the Churches or Chapels
of Duryen alias Dunyne and Dromald or Dromard alias Dromawlagh, in the
Fuigh alias the Fyvagh alias Tuoghfuigh.*

The Rectory or Chapel of Dough-Connor alias Connor. The Rectory or
Chapel of Killwigh alias Killroote in Tuogh Braden- Island.

The Church or Chapel of Ballynemeanagh. The Advowson and Patronage
of the Vicarage of the said Church.

All the Tithes belonging to the aforesaid Rectories, in which are included
those of Templeoughtragh, in or near Glanarme, and of Kilkeevan, in the Island
of Maguy.

The Advowson, Presentation, and Right of Patronage of the Churches and
Chapels of Dough-Connor alias Connor, and Kilwigh alias Kilroote. The Estate
of said Abbey of Kells, with all other the Possessions thereof.

The Towns and Lands of Ballydun and Ballymenihan, with their Tithes,
parcel of the Preceptory of Ards, and the estate of the Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem. The Chapel or Grange of Templenelafyn in Island Maguy, with all
the Tithes of the four Towns of Mullaskee, Mullastee the estate of the Monastery of
Comber, the Church or Chapel and Tithes of Cranoge in Tuoghfall, the estate
of the late Abbey of Bangor.

The Advowson, Presentation, and Right of Patronage of the Rectories and
Vicarages of Cramechill in Tuoghfuigh, Squirria alias Skerris in Knockboynabrady,
and Rathkavan in Tuogh- Muntermurregan, in the Lower Clandeboy.

The Impropriate Rectory and the Advowson and Presentation of the Vicarage
of Cueill alias Code in Carnemonie, which Rectory consists inter alia of two third
parts of the Tithes of Com and Hay of the Town and Lands of Camemony alias
Carmony, the estate of the Abbey of Woodburne.

The Towns, Lands, and Tithes of Garrymore and Ballygreenlawy alias
Ballygreenlawye in Tuoghleame, and Ferry from Island-Magee to Oulderfleete.

The late Abbey, Church, or House of Cistercian Friers of St. Augustine's
Order of Inver, with the Site, &c. The Towns and Lands of Cameduffe. Bally-
shagg alias Ballyhagg and Brundod, with the Tithes in Tuogh-Magherimome in the
Lower Clandeboy, and all other the estate of the said Abbey.

The Abbey or Monastery of Woodbome, or Goodbome, with all the estate
thereof [among which is the Church or Rectory impropriate of Killaloige alias
Kildalog in the Rowte, mentioned in the Patent of 1621]. [Except the Rectories of
Killprioragh, Balydun, Kilkewan, and Templenelafine.]

* In the Patent of 1631 here were added the Rectories of Dundermot and Rotswilike in the Rowte.

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The Castle, Town, and Lands of Oulderfleete alicis the Curran, containing
Three Quarters, containing one hundred and eighty Acres English Measure. A
parcel of Land adjoining or belonging to the late Church of Friers, called Clon-
dumalles alias Dunmallis, near the Lands of Oulderfleete, North, and the Town of
Lame, South, containing Fifteen Acres English Measure. AH the Tithes of
Oulderfleete, Blackan alias Blackhave, and Grillan chill alias Grilbanchill belonging
to the said Church.

The Castle, Town, &c., of Portmucke.

The Castle, Town, and Lands of Castle-Chichester.

The House, Manor, Territory, and Lands of McGuiye's Island alias Magees-
Island alias Ilandmagee, with all the Hereditaments thereof, Spiritual and
Temporal.

The aforesaid Premises of Olderfleete, Portmuck, Castle-Chichester, Island-
Magee, Dunmallis, the Abbey of Inver, the Rectory of Glynne, the Lands of Cam-
•dufie, Ballyshagg, and Brendodd, created the Manor of Castle-Chichester, with
Courts Leet and Baron.

The total Rent to be paid for the above estates in the County of Antrim,
^32 IS. Z%^.

Co. Of tbe XCOWn of CarriCftferflUS*— The Castle or Mansion-House
of his Lordship, now called Joy mount, and lately called the Pallace alias the
Storehouse, with all the Buildings, Gardens, Orchards, &c., in or near Carrick-
fergus.

The late Abbey, Monastery, or Priory of Carrickfergus, called St. Francis
Fryorie, and lately named the Pallace, with the Site and all the Estate thereof in
the County of Carrickfergus.

A Piece of Ground on which Four Tenements were lately built in Water
Street, surrounded with a Wall, and made part of the Court-yard of Joymount-
House, containing in length from Spittlegate by the street, towards the said
House, One hundred and forty-five feet or thereabouts, and backwards in breadth
to the North about twenty-one feet. A Piece of Land, lying North of the said
Four Tenements, on which his Lordship's Stables are built, belonging to said
House.

Two Watermills, called Chichester-Terrott's Mills, North-east of Carrickfergus.
Seven Tenements on the Hill leading to the Scottish Quarter of the said Town.
A Piece of Land near the said Mills, called Leadeland, and Raven's Acre. All
the Messuages, Tenements, and Buildings without the Walls of Carrickfergus to
the East, and bounded on the east by the River running along near the House
late belonging to Robert Ellis ; on the South by the Sea ; on the North by the
Orchard Wall of Joymount ; and on the West by the Town Wall, with the Back-
sides, &c., thereof. All the Ground, Soil, or Land which Arthur late Lord
Chichester had, or which the Lord Edward and the said Arthur his Son, or his
Heirs, should recover from the Sea. A Messuage or Tenement called the Hospital
of St. Brigid in Carrickfergus. A Stone House and an Acre of Land, more or less,
late belonging to John White, Burgess, bounded South by the Land of said John
White and Richard Sendall ; North by the old Ram pier of the Town ; West by
St. Nicholas's Church- Yard ; and East by the Stone House formerly occupied by
Egidius or Gyles Cornewall, deceased, and now by his Lordship. A House or
Tenement, called Sendall's-Hall, alias Sendall's Old Stone, with a parcel of Land
adjoining and therewith used.

The moiety of a Burgage of Land, with the buildings thereon, in West Street,
•called Taaffe's half Burgage, containing in breadth next the Street Forty-two feet,
and running back to the Church-Yard. Another half Burgage on the North side of
West Street, between the aforesaid half Burgage, East, and Alderman T. Cooper's
House and Land, West, containing in length to the Street Forty-two feet, and back
to the Church-Yard, North. A Piece of Land, where the East-Mills, called the
Double-Mills, lately stood, enclosed now with the Walls of Joymount Garden and
the Town, with all the buildings thereon and the West-Mills.

The Site, &c., of the Monastery of Woodbome alias Goodborne, with a parcel
•of land adjoining and the Tithes thereof. A parcel of Land, called Downe-

134 Old Belfast.

mallerewe, lying on the West of Woodborae. Two parcels of Land in the Field
on the West side of the River of Woodbome. A parcel of Land in the Town and
Fields of Carrickfergus, the reputed property of Nichs. Dobbin, Burgess, deceased,
meared West by the Road to Glanarme ; North by Anthony Dobbin's Land, and
by his Lordship's Land, East, Two parcels of Land, called Bridewell-Park,
Greenemount, and Spittle-Park, between Glanarme- Way or Glanarumway and
Copeland- Water, bounding on the lands of John Came, East ; on the East-Mill
Water Course, South ; by two parcels of Land belonging to Nichs. and Anth.
Dobbin, West ; and by late J. Skullie's, North. A parcel of Land, lying South of
the last parcel, about Twenty Perches long and Six broad, enclosed by a Ditch,
and lately purchased by his Lordship of Sir Hercules Langford, Knt.

A parcel of Land on the West side of the River Woodbome, bounded by the
Road near Woodbome Abbey leading to the Garrison Pasture, East ; by the
Lands assigned to Richd. Conlan and others. West ; by the High Road not far
from the Sea, South ; and North, for the space of about Two hundred Perches, by
the Garrison Pasture, 530 Acres English.

A parcel of Land meared on the South by the Garrison Pasture ; on the North
by Lands assigned to the Bishop of Down and others ; on the East by a High
Road for about Two hundred Perches westerly in length to the Mountain of
Knocka, and granted by the Corporation of Carrickfergus to Sir Arthur Chichester
by Indenture dated 28 October, 1606, 105 Acres English.

The entire Circuit and Precinct of Land, arable, meadow, pasture, turbary,
mountain, and bog, within the County of the Town of Knockfergus, lying between
the Deer's Lane and Bruslee Ford, near Lurganreagh. And also two Aldermen's
Shares in the Fields of Carrickfergus, between Glanarme and Copeland Water,
lately purchased by his Lordship from Sir Thos. Hibbots, Knt., deceased.

The Castle or Hall called Birlett-Hall or Castle, sometime in the possession
of Sir Moses Hill, Knt., deceased, and after of Alderman T. Witter. The Castle,
called Dobbin's Castle, and the Castle or Mansion House adjoining. A parcel of
Land, Seventy Perches long and Thirty-eight broad. Another parcel One hundred
and fourteen Perches long. Another parcel containing Twenty-four Acres. Another
parcel Two hundred Perches long and Sixty-eight broad.

A Messuage and a parcel of Land on the West side of the suburbs of Carrick-
fergus. The Castle or Messuage in High Street, lately purchased from Francis
Hill, Esq., and Mary Russell. A Messuage in said Street purchased from Michl.
Newby. A ruinous Tenement in said Street, late occupied by M. Savage. A
Messuage in said Street bought from Phelim Roe McGee. A Messuage next to
that bought from Rd. Spearpointe. A parcel of Land near Joymount, now con-
verted into a Backside or Bawne, bought from Mary Russell. A parcel near the
Brew-House, and purchased from the Corporation.

A parcel where a Messuage is built, late occupied by Thomas Kirkpatrick.
A parcel of Land adjoining. A piece of Ground called the Widow Bird's Garden.
A Messuage, bounded by the Church-Yard, inhabited by Robert Walsham.

The Town and Lands of Marshals to wne.

A parcel of Land near Woodbome, called Scoute's-Bush, alias Lettice-Land^
bounded by the Sea, South-west, and by the Road to the Knocka, North.

The Total Rent to be paid for the above Estates in the County of the Town
of Carrickfergus, l;i 7s. 7>2d. p. Ann., subject to a fine oi £\o whenever the
Crown should build the Walls of Carrickfergus.

(TOUntB H)OWUe.— The Town and Lands of Ballynefeighe, at a yearly
rent of £0 ys. gd.

All the Premises in the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, and the County
of Down, created the Manor of Joymount, with Courts Leet and Baron.

(TOUntg of ©OnCflall.— City and Liberties of Derry, and County
OF Derry. — The entire Barony, Territory, and Circuit of Land of Inishowen and
O'Dogherty's Country, with all the Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereof,
Spiritual and Temporal. All the Lands within Loughswilly and Loughfoyle, or
elsewhere in the Sea, Bays, and Creeks within or near the said Territory.

Confirmation of the Chichester Patents. 135

The Castle, Manor, or House and Tuogh of Ellagh, and all the Castles,
Towns, and Quarters of Lands of Ellaghmore, Drumdryne alias Drumadrene alias
Dundreane, EUaghbegg, and Ballynegalleagh alias Ballynecalleagh.

The Towns and Lands of Magherenicarr alias Magherencar, Bonemayne,
Coskeyne, Mastimelan, Ballym^^rowertie alias Ballym^^growertie, Lisfannon, Skyogc,
Tomoge, Skygaden, Carrowreagh, Camesanocke alias Carroneshenagb, Bally-
derdaowen alias Ballyederdaowen, Killm^'Killaveny alias Killm^'Killveny, Garvey
alias Garvegerry, Tullywonyn alias TuUywasinn, Ballyena, Gortcarmagan, Derry-
vaughan alias Derryvaine alias Crossihowell, Soppock, Drumhegerty, Camamoyle,
Uskeheyne alias Uskeyheyne, Ardmore, Creigh alias Creigg, Ballyamell, Mough
alias Muffe, Dromskallon, Ture, Aughte, Ardocryne, Trometragh, Caroncule,
Cabragh, Crehenan, Minbaltony, The House called White-Castle, Rowskey, Car-
ronmore in Glantagher, Carronvleigh alias Carronbleagh, Cearrhan, Altoughan,
Gaily welly alias Galboyly, Cashell in Glantagher, Bally vloske alias Ballybloskie,
Carrick-Iwoden alias Carrick-Iwhoden in Glannygannon, TuUanree alias Tullagh-
naree, Magherynedroman, Carronreagh in Glannygannon, Clare alias Claremore,
Ballyratton, Tullynavin, Tavynegallon alias Tavenaghgallon, Tullyalla alias Taven-
enogla, Two Townlands, The Mountains of Evasabreedy and Minnemarragh,
Some, Mynaneagh, Sallgillanow, Slewsnaght, Mynabroughtduffe, Glanard-
gavenagh, Myneauly, The Shell-Islands in Loughfoile. The Premises thus far
created Manor of Ellagh, with Courts Leet and Baron.

Co. of H)OnCddlI. — Barony Enishowen.— The Castle, Manor, Lord-
ship, Tuogh, Lands, and Hereditaments of Greene-Castle alias Newcastle.

The Towns and Lands of Ball>Tn*' Arthur alias Ballym^'Arthull, Fardrome,
Crehue altas Crehugh, Ballyelehan alias Ballyeaghan, Carrontrassan alias Carron-
trasnah, Shrone, with the Port or Creek of Portsallagh alias Enversallagh and
Sbrone. The Castle called Redcastle, alias Carrickm'^quivellen. The Town and
third part of Cloncroe, Ballyargus, Dronge alias Drunge, and Ballylane. The
Towns and Lands of Culladoe alias Culladowe alias Ballywoggery, Bradeaughlin
alias Tirrowe, Ballynally, Carrongarrowe alias Camegarve, Ballybracke, Dromwyre
alias Dromawyer, Glanygovenagh, Masoaglin <z//Vw Glanganvyn and Minlitterbeale.
The Mountain of Creggnamaddie. The Town and Lands of Carronbegg, Bally-
m*^arronie, and Carronvleigh in Turmone. The Hamlets of Leckemy, Ballybrinn,
and Dromley alias Drumiley. The Towns and Lands of Carronmenagh alias
Carronmanagh. The Mountain of Carrahenshefeigh. The Towns and Lands of
Leotrim-O'Cullenan, Ballycarry, Tirm'^cowra alias Tirm^'crowra, Dunagreynan,
Kindroyde alias Kinderhed alias Kindroghed, Dristernan, Aughatubritt alias
Aughatubridd, Monadoragh alias Monadragh, Aughagalasson alias Aughaglasson,
Wort alias Woart, Waskill, Caronmore in Glanyla alias Glandeela, Cashel in
Glanyla. The Island of Enistrahull alias Enistrahell in the Sea. The Premises
thus far created the Manor of Greenecastle, with Courts Leet and Baron.

(To. S)OnCddll. — Barony of Enyshowen.— The Castle, Manor, or Lord-
ship, Town, and Tuogh of Boncranagh.

The Towns and Lands of Ballyenry alias Ballyeneery and Tullyarvill alias
TuUyarvelly. The Mountain of Duntersen, reputed parcel of Tullyarvill. The
Towns and Lands of Slydran and Ballym*=ganny. The Half-Towns and Lands of
Toneregee, Ballym^^carry, Tullydush, and Aughachullie alias Aughachillie. The
Towns and Lands of Arderayman, and the Mountain of Cregcumber, reputed
parcel thereof. The Towns and Lands of Monywory alias Monygworry, and
Granygoagh alias Gransheag alias (Grange, and the Mountain of Myndccallagh
alias Mintecalleagh. The Towns and Lands of Luddan alias Sluddan, Trillagee,
Clonm<^gee alias Clum*^kee, Glassault, Altosheyne, Came, Rosscyeny alias Rasheny,
Caronreagh, Ballym%^eene, Maherenale alias Cregnamullen, Fugarte, Laggacurrie,
Carrickbrackie alias Carnebraghey, Ballym*=murierlie alias Ballym'^morierlie, Tully-
nabrattie, Dowygillen, Ardaghee, Ballylovrin alias Ballyluffin, Cloagh, Monyclohine
alias Monyclogheyne, Altehalle alias Altoghallagh, Rouskie, Dunally, Cressconnell,
Rosemagh alias Rosemagha, Downane alias Downaffe, Litter alias Letter,
Crishmanagh, Lynan in Erris, Inver alias Dunreigh, Lethderrigg alias Laghbun,

136 Old Belfast.

Monagh aliai Munagh, Monaloobane alias Monaloovane, Lislyn alias Ltsloyne,
Lyowcn, and Gortearagan. The Towns or Half Quarters of Moughkinnagowa,
Toughanakinnagowa, Connackinnagowa, and Fillaskie alias Ardagh-Ikinnagowa«
The West part of the Mountain of Sleanemayne, reputed parcel of Fillaskie.
The Towns and Lands of Crislecoale alias Crislocule, Crisloghmore, Tubbane-
carrowe alias Tubbanecarrogh, Carronamaddy, Monespinoge, Castlecoule alias
Cashellcoallie, Macullenbegg alias Maghcullenbegg, Macullenmore, Moynassee
alias Mughnassee, Moughlena alias Mullena, Dromgovan alias Drom^owan,
Grahgeagh alias Grange a//Vz^ Ballymannagh in Birt, Mullovirta/zVu Mullagbirt, and
Tullade alias Tullaghade. The Mountains of Ellaes, Some, and Mintoulogh.
The Island of Inch alias Inishneostree alias Inishneostrey, containing Eight
Quarters in Lough Swillie. The Island or Rock called Seal- Island alias Glas-
hyedie in the Sea, near the Quarter of Land of Carrickeybrackey, with the Fishing
for Seals there. The Premises thus far created the Manor of Boncranagh, with
Courts Leet and Baron

COt S)OttC0dlL — Barony of Enyshowen. — The Castle, Manor, and
Lordship or Circuit of Malyne alias Maulyn.

The Towns and Lands of Ballycarran, Glani^add, Ballyhaneitragh alias
Ballyeighan-Itragh, Ballyeighanwotrath alias Ballyhannowtrath, Dromcarbett,
Carronmore alias Carrowmore in Malyne, Ballyellihane, Ballagh, Norrira alias
Forrira, Cranegeny-Forrira, Carronvleigh in Malyne, Drunge, Cullin, Tullaugh
alias Anisnager, Ballyeddidy alias Ballyedogie, Knocknamany, Knockglasse,
Downane, Coronobate alias Coronbate, Colewart alias Grange of Colewart, known
and called Coolewart-Itragh and Coolewart-oughtragh, Kenaght alias Kenaugh,
Ballykenny, Ballyknawsie, Drumaskeagh alias Anisnager, Goorie, Vrigh alias
Brigh, and a Rock called Stuckeruden, reputed parcel thereof. Ardmalync cdias
Ardmanlyne, and the Rocks of Rowemanlyne and the Creek or Port of
Porterrownan being parcels thereof. Ballygorman and the Rocks of Game- Hand,
with the Seal Fishing there, and an ancient Chapel, called Templemurgalla,
reputed parcel of Ballygorman. The Ferry over the River or Arm of the Sea,
called Loughfoile, from Greenecastle, Co. of Donegal, to Termonmaggillegan, Co.
of Derry, with one or more Boats — To take for the passage of every Man, 3d. ;
every Horse, Ox, or Cow, 6d. ; every horse-load, 2d. ; every Sheep, id., and so
rateably for all other beasts, by Patent 20 Nov., 1621.

The Premises thus far created the Manor of Maulyn, with Courts Leet and
Baron.

(To. H)OnCddlL — Barony of Enyshowen.— All the Rights of Patronage,
Presentations, and Advowsons of the Churches, Rectories, and Vicarages of
Culdagh alias Culdafgha, Clonca alias Cloncagha, Donnaghclantaghe alias
Dounaghclancagher, Clonmony alias Clonmanny, and Desertegney alias Drister-
teigney, Fathen alias Fawen, and all other Churches, Chapels, &c., within Inish-
owen alias O'Dogherty's Country in the Patent of 162 1. Four Salmons every day
for ever out of the Salmon Fishing at Cullmore, or near Cullmore Fort, in Lough-
foyle, during the Fishing Season. The Fishings of Boncranagh and Strabreage
alias Traybreage. All Waifs, Estrays, Mines, Quarries, Wrecks, Courts, Free
Warren, and Liberty to impark any quantity of Land, of and in the Manors afore-
said in Co. Donegal.

The Total Rents for the aforesaid Lands in the Counties of Donegal and
Londonderry, ;^36 14s. iid.

(To* TEgronC.-- Barony of Dong annon.— The Entire Manor, Fort, and
Castle of Done^annon. The Town and Lands of Dongannon alias Dromcowe
alias Killm^'Cullen, and a Watermill on the Lands of Brough, near Dungannon.
The Towns and Lands of Kenemeale, Carroghelmallcrosse aHa^ Gortnaganine-
brough, Dungorman alias Dromgorman alias Moyvall cdias Dungarman, Kille-
quinn alias Killaquin, Clontemolke, Colchill alias Coolehills Gortmarren alioi
Portmarren, Moycashall alias MoyegeshcU, Lism^'dermott, Knocksallagh, Killa-
murfey, MuUaterrory, Lisganine alias Lisgane, Mullareagh alias Lismullareagb,

Confirmation of the Chichester Patents. 137

MuUeoran, Dromlee, Lissamenan, Donatade cdias Donadeade cdias Dromastrade,
Derrycreevy, Coolecloish cdicu Cooleclosh alias Coolecosh alicis Strangmore,
Droghvane aiiaa Droghneboagbie (dicu Lisboy, Dromenebugh alias Lemoneheltan,
Drogbtll alias Drean alias Droan o^ioa Aughanacloagb, Tempane alias Tempaneroe,
Cooleneknougb alias Coolenegnugbe, Dromeagh aluis Altenovenoge alias firoagh-
derge alias Tbe Red Foorde, Derrymecne alias Derryvecne, Heskeragh alias
Killcarragb alicu Knockequinn, Call alias Lislaquitb, Killedan alias Killedoone alias
Cooleacurragh, Mullaghmore, Ardoliske alias Ardoluske alias Dromederdalogh,
Tcrencskill alias Tcrenckeilmore alias Tcrenckeilbegg, Clonduffe alias Cloneduske,
Mulletedoone alitu Mullagbedon alieu Clonkinsban, and Cessagbbuey.

C0» of XTStOnC* — Barony of Dungannon.— The dissolved House of
Franciscan Friers near Dungannon, witb tbe Site thereof, and tbe Towns and
Lands of Mullanebaye alias Mullanabath alias Mullagbdrolley, Tanagb ali€u
Anagb alicu Annagb alias Annaghbegg, Moylaboy alias MuUaboy alias Mulbuy
alias Dromyntum alias Dooregarmuly, Killnemaddie alias Killamaddy alias
Knockaboney alias Mullagblogbemagh. Tbe Estate of said Friery. All tbese
Lands created tbe Manor of Dungannon, witb Courts Leet and Baron, Waifs,
Estrays, Mines, Free Warren, and liberty to impark any quantity of Land witbin
tbe Manor of Dungannon.

Total Rents of Lands in County of Tyrone, ;^i8 14s. 6d.

CiVS of Dublin^— A Water-Mill and Pond and a Horse-Mill, parcel of
St. Mary's Abbey in or near Dublin. To pay tbe Rent of Ten Shillings after tbe
end of a Lease made 28 August, 17 anno Eliz. to T. Earl of Onnond, £0 ids. od.

Liberty to bold Two hundred Acres or thereabouts in Demesne in tbe several
Manors of Dungannon, Ellagh, Greencastle, Boncranagh, and Maulyn. Power to
create Freeholders in all the Manors. Licence to make Parks, with Free Warren
and Chace. Dated 2^ Septr,^ 1640, Inrolled 16 Septr.y i66j.

Whereas King James I., by Patent dated 20 Nov., 1621, amongst divers other
things, granted to Arthur Lord Chichester and his Heirs, for ever, Loughneagb
alias Lough Chichester, &c. And whereas Edwd. Visct. Chichester and his son
Arthur, now Earl of Donegal, according to the letters of King Charles I. dated 24
Septr., 1638, did, to comply with his Majesty's occasions, surrender the same, and
in consideration thereof was to have a Pension (to them both for life) or Rent-Charge
of £^0 a-year, with liberty to fish for their own Provisions upon the said Lough,
and with Eel Fishings at, in, or near Toome. And whereas finding John Visct.
Massereene possessed of the Premises, and having made a lease to him thereof, at
tbe Rent of £^0 for the first Seven years and £^0 for the remainder, the King
(pursuant to Privy Seal, dated at Whitehall 28 Feb., 1660) granted and confirmed
to Arthur Earl of Donegal and his heirs, for ever, all the said Fishings and
Fishing Places of what kind soever in the said Loughneagb and Toome alias
Lough-Sidney alias Lough-Chichester, and in the River of the Bann, with all the
Soils and Islands within the same, from the said Lough unto the Rock or fall of
Water called the Salmon Leap in the said River, together with certain Eel Wears
in and upon the Bann. To hold the same as they had been granted by King
James I., and also all Rents reserved, due, or payable out of the Premises, upon
any Lease or Leases heretofore made to the said John Visct, Massareene. jd/uly^
j66i.

King James I. having, by two different Patents bearing date 20 Nov., 1621,
granted to Arthur Lord Chichester, Baron of Belfast, and to his Heirs, divers
Lands in the Counties of Antrim, Tyrone, Londonderry, Donegal, and Co. of the
Town of Carrickfergus, which were created into several Manors, with power to
hold a Law- Day or Court of Record once in every three weeks before Seneschals
of his and their appointing, and therein to hold Pleas of all Actions of Debt^
Trespass, &c., not exceeding ;^20, and to receive the Fines of the said Courts ; to
appoint Prisons, Bailiflfs and other Officers, and to have the executing and
returning of all Writs within the said Manors, and a Liberty to hold divers
Markets and Fairs, as in the said Patents expressed ; to build Tan-Houses and to
tan Leather, and to appoint a Say-Master and Clerk of the Market. And the said

138 Old Belfast.

Markets, Faire, and Privileges having been omitted to be inserted in the Letters
Patent of King Charles I. granting and confirming all the said Lands, under the
Commission for remedy of defective Titles, and the Lands of Ballynefeigh in
Co. Down being thereby made part of the Manor of Joymount, Arthur Earl of
Donegal applied to the King for a new Grant to him and his Heirs of all the
aforesaid Markets, Fairs, Courts, and other Privileges, and that the said Lands of
Ballynefeigh might be made pan of the Manor of Belfast, being situated near and
more convenient to the parcel thereof, and grant the like Privileges to the new
created Manor of Joymount as had been annexed to the other Manors by the
Patents of King James. All which the King, by Privy Seal, dated at Whitehall
7 August, 1668, directed to be done, which was accordingly performed by this
Patent, separating the said Lands from Joymount and annexing them to the
Manor of Belfast; granting to him and his Heirs 10 hold the said Law- Day or
Court of Record within the Manors of Belfast, Ballinlinny, Moyhnny, and Castle-
Chichester ; to hold a Thursday Market and a fair i Septr., and the day after, at
Antrim ; a Friday Market and two Fairs on I August, and the Feast of SL Simon
and St. Jude, and the day after eacb, at Belfast ; to build a Tan-House in every of
the said Manors, and tan Leather; to appoint a Say-Master and Clerk of the
Market in every of the said Manors ; to hold a Thursday Market and two Fairs
on Monday next after the Feast of Saints Philip and Jacob, and on Monday next
after Michaelmas Day ^nd the day after each, at Dungannon ; a Market and two
Fairs on 1 Augt. and 2 Novr., and the day after each at Cloncroe or Cloneroe
near Red-Castle in Inishowen ; a Friday Market and two Fairs on 31 Augt. and
30 April, and the day after each, at Boncrannagh. A Law- Day or Court of Record,
with all the aforesaid Privileges annexed to the Manor of Joymount, with Free
Warren, &c., &c. Inrolled I a July, 1669. {Pinkerton MSS.)

Description of ar&es Baron?, in the Count? of
Down, 1683.

By \ViLLi.\M Montgomery.

HE Barony of Aides is thick and well peopled, being above
Seventeen miles long and three broad, is separated (00 the South
end thereof) from Lecahill by a great Flux and reflux of the sea
(thence called Strong Ford Kivei) a musket Shot over, in which,
near the Ardes side, under an hill (by the Irish called banckmore)
ihereisawhiile-pooleoreddyof iherclurnincTides. called by Ihc
Scolch the Towling wcelefrom the Loud Sound it sometimes makes,
to which if small boats come (except about full sea, when the
r is smelt), il is s.iid they will be suckt in and swallowed up,
hat a great Vessell with a Topsaill gale doth pvs through it
hardly wilhout being laid about ; yet in this lost century we have
not heiid of one boat or person lost by il ; horn thence in a
quarter of .1 League stands the niaiket lown of Portaferry, where great liarks do anchor, and
at low ebb lye dry, and as much sea further brings great ships up to a Land's end (which from
an hill that runs into the said river is] called Ballyhendiy point, giving Ihem under shelter
(hereof a spacious harbour, safe from the North and East winds' fury. Some pretenders
haveolfered to lind good coal here, but their want of money and incouragement hath hindered
the Iryal thereof There is another harbour just opposile thereunto, on Lacahill side (called
from a castle above il) Audley's Koad, belonging to Nicholas Ward, of Castle Ward, Esqr.,
who halh a pleasant scat, liuildings and plantations near unto it. And over against Portafeiiy
there is a good Creek or Bay for barks, where they lie at Anchor in live fathoms at the Lowest
ebb. This is beneath Strongford town, where is the residence and office of the Collector and
Customer foi poits adjacent. Moon at due South causelh high waler at the Bar of the said
River of Strongford. This Barony is divided in lowei and upper, otherwise called the little
and great Ardes, the first whereof, next Lacahill, send every winter great store of good

Description of Ardes Barony, 16S3. 139

Wheat, Bear, Oats, and Barley to Dublin and elsewheie, and all the Easlem coasls thereof
abounds wilh fishes, as henins in harvest ; also Cod, Ling, Graylords (which aie neat as big
is Cod), whileings, Bavins, large di^ dsb, Had^IockSt Mackrelli, Lilhes, Blockans, Lobslers,
and etabs, and halh good catlle, especially sheep, which feeding on y* onre, keep wholesome
and fat ail winter and spring lime ; within the Land are divers Loughs in which are store of
Pike and Eefs, Ducks, leel and widgion, and Swans ; the ^lills whereof, some be cra^
and full of Furs and healh, and the Fern and pasture fteids aflbid Failridge, Quails, Curliw,
and Plover of both sorts, and some store of rabbets. This whole Terrllory dolh much want
fuell. for with great paines ihey make it of Bogg mud, claped together and formeit with
hands, and turned often (o dry in the Sun ; but the gentry supply ihemselfs with Coals from
England and Scotland. Thii lower half ^lony wa,-! planted by a collony and recruits of the
English, when de Courcy pierced inlo these parts of Ulster and sackt down Patrick. The
chi^name and commander of that collony is Savage, who, with the Assistance of the Kussells,
Filiaymons, Audleys, Jorduns, and the Welshes of Lccahill, and the Whites and others of
the County of Antrim (many of which Farailys depended on and were followers to the
Savi^es), have hitherto kept their ground og'- all the incursions of Ihc Oneals and divers
clans, iheir voMalls, aliho the Vork and Lancastrian broils drew many of their people to take

the part they wished best to which was the York side. The chief of those Savages was stiled
in Gianlsfrom Queen Elizalieth Lord of the little Ardes; his Castle is that of PorlafenyaTuresoid,
the Loigesl Pile of Ihem all, and afair slated house, anno 1635, is added thereunto, the chief
(then being} having married a Daughter of the first Lord Viscount Montgomery of the great
Aides, a Second and an Antient Family of the same Savages is that of Aikin, it is of good
account and hath also another Castle called Scatrick, both are very tenable foi war if fortilycd
and repaired, of whose Family one Cadet, Rowland Savage, since King James his Entry to
England, hath built the two C^'^tles of Ballygalgotand Kirkestown, being high Square piles as
aieusuall in Ireland, and gave the Same with Lands adjoyningtotwoof his Sons, about which
are divers Irish papist housholds (but inconsiderable) mingled with the britisb near Poitiferry.
Northwestward is the old Abbey of Arcjuin, with Seven Towns (the Bishop's Londsl
leased to John Echlin, Esq., whose father was the Grandson of one of the Same Simame ;
Kahop of Down at the beginning of the British plantation under King James aforesaid.
These Lands are Said to be given to the Church by Savage of Portiferry, in an expiatory
devotion or penitentiary benevolence when all Ireland was popish. The Said Mr. Echlin

I40 Old Belfast.

hath alsoe Severall Townlands in free-hold belonging to a great ruinous Pyle called Castlebo^,
once the Seat of the Pryor of St. John's in the Ardes, which hath a mannor Court also, there is
likewise on the Eastern Shore (one league and an half from the Said Bar) Quintinbay Gistle,
with an house adjoyning thereto in good repair, with a Stone walled Court or Bawn and
Flankers, all which (except the Pyle) Sr. James Montgomery, Knt. (who purchased the same
and Lands thereunto belonging from Smith a defender of the Late Chief Savage), and his Son
and Heir William, built and repaired. It commands the Bay, which can receive a Bark of fifty
Tuns burthen. Near it is a ruinouse pyle called New Castle, which, with divers town
Lands adjoyning, belong to James Hamilton, Esq., thence, on the Same Coast, three miles
northward, stands Kirkestown Castle (which, and Quintinbay, are the only pyles in repair
in this half Barony), whose late erected Garden Walls are washed with a pleasant fresh
Lough near the Sea and opposite to the South rock. This James McGill of Ballymonestragh,
Esqr., hath improved much by building walls and houses, and repairing in and about it. He
lately purchased the Same and Some Townlands adjoyning from the Grandson of the Said
Cadet of Arkin, and hath also built a windmill which is Seen far of at Sea and Serves (in day
time) in good steed as a land mark for Saylors to avoid y^ North and South Rocks aforesaid —
Noted in all maps for the misfortunes that ships, Especially forreigners, have had on them in
Stormy and dark weather. So that it were to be wished a light house were maintained there.
Next lyes a Small Island called green Isle, and a Lesser patch of Rocky Land called buriall,
which are the most Easterly parts of Ireland, being a place where vessells often ly at Anchor,
expecting the desired wind to run their begun Course. This is the furthest north Extent of
this lower half Barony, which hath in it the Small parishes hereafter named (viz*), Bally-
phillip, B*trustan, Slane, Woughtercastlel)oy, Arquin and Arkin, All which are now Served
out in two places, to Witt, at Arkin and Portferry, which last only hath a Large Church in
good repair, the rest are unroofed. I conclude the description of the Said Territorys with a
brief Remark on y® Savages aforesaid, that they have always been a Stout and Warlike
people, Loyall to the Crown of England, who, however they might have had Some Civil broylcs
amongst themselves, and became (as many noble English Families in Leinster, Munster, and
Connaught) too much addicted to the Irish Customes and exactions, yet they are now as much
civillized as the british, and doe live decently and conformably to the (Church, and enjoy houses,
Orchards, and inclosed fields, and hold all the possession they had at the entry of King James
aforesaid (except Kirkestown and the Lands adjoyning, before mentioned, which, nevertheless,
of the late purchase made thereof, doth pay chiefree to the Castle of Arkin and doe Suite to the
Courts Leet and Baron of the Mannor thereof), they having renewed their pattents pursuant to
the commission of Grace for defective Titles granted in y« reign of his Late Maj*»« of Glorious
Memory. Then next to the Lower half Barony, mearing on the North, is the great Ardes,
wherein are B. Halbert and B. Walter parishes (in the last is a Small Village, a slate quarrey,
a creek for small boats, and a place very fitt for a great Harbour, both lately belonging to
the last Earl of Clanbrazill, if a Key, as was intended by the said Earle, were built there.
In these parishes are handsom slated houses lately built by John Bayly, Hugh Montgomery,
and Hugh Hamill, Esqrs., Justices of the Peace, raised from the ground on their respective
fee-farms, all within prospect of the firth between Scotland and Ireland. Contiguous and a
little more Northerly, on the west side of this half Barony, is Gray Al)l)ey parish, half
whereof by Pattent from the Laie King Charles (of Glorious Memory) belongs to William
the Son and heir of Sr. James Montgomery aforesaid, in which is a double-roofed house
with four flankers. Stables, and all needfull office houses, all Slated and built after the foreign
and English manner with outer and inner courts walled about and surrounded with pleas^fnt
Gardens, Orchards, meadows and pasture inclosures under view of the said house (called
Rosemount, from which the manor thereof taketh name). The same was finished by the
said Sr. James An<* 1634, only some small convenient additions of building and orchards are
lately made by his said Son. King James granted a Port to l>e at Gray Abbey Island, with
Pilotage, Anchorage, Keelage and other advantages and privileges to the same, and licenced
Exportation of all native comoditys thereout except Irish Yarn ; but there is no trade there
at this time. Near and in view of Rosemount -house are the walls of a Large Abbey of
curious work, ruinated in Tyrone's Rebellion ; it is called in inquisitions and Pattents
Alxithium de Jugo dei ; in Irish, Monestrelea ; in English, Gray or hoar Abby, from the
order of Fryers who enjoyed it, and had belonging to thereunto all its one parish in
temporalibus et spiritualibuSt and also diverse lands in the County of Antrim with Tythcs
there and in the lower Ardes, in Lecahill, the Isle of Man, and high lands of Scotland.
Near it is a spring of excellent water. Campion reports that y^ first donation of lands to it
was An^ 1 189 or 1190, which was in de Courcy aforesaid his time ; the Church thereof was
new roofed, slated, and reedifyed, and a yard thereunto walled about, and a competent
stipend given for a Curat by y^ said first Lord Mont6:omery ; about a mile thence is a small
ruined Abbey, with some lands adjoyning, called black Abbey, from Fryars of that coloured
habit belonging to the Lord Primate in right of his See of Ardmagh ; the rest of his parish.

Description of Ardes Barony, 1683.

141

being 1,000 acrn at 19 foot to T° pearch, belongs lo S'- Robert Collvell. Knigfil, W lite
pmchase. Then is the parish of Donnoghaiiec— a Large Manor belonging lo the Earl of
Mont Alexander — wherein is a fair slated Church in shape of St, Geo. Cross, hnvin? fnur
loofs meeliug in the middle, and a Bell Tower ; here is a Lar^e Key, a great work, all built
ty the said first Lord Monlgomerj', and an handsome market Town of the same Name with the
parish, which is the usuall Port for transportation of horses and cattle lo England, and is the
nearest to Port Falricic in Scutlmnd. About a mile and half from the Town Southward ii
Utricle Montgomery, Esq., his house of Creboy slated, seen far at sea, having Orchards and
inclosures about it, and within a mile and a-half are qUKrreys of slate, which are used at Belfast,
Carrickfei^s, and elsewhere. Then ab*- two miles northwards from the said Town is Jamel
Ross, of Poilavo. Esq.. his Kreat house and Urge office-houses all of stone, brick, and lime,
slated ; gardens walled in, and many well-fenced pastures, all his own erection, since his maj"™-
happy lUloralion. In view thereof Copland Isles, part of hi; Hslale, convenient places for*
Deer Park, a warren, and olher chases. About a mile more norlheriy is Graham's Port, a Key
and harbour for smalt boats ; these two In si -mentioned places are in Bangor Parish, which

belonged to the said lost Earl of Clinbraiill. And from thence the Qexl considerable is the
Town cor]""^'e i'' ""trkcl one) of the same name with the parish ; it halh a Provost. 12
burgesses [and freemen made so by them), it sends two men (who are chosen by (he burgesses
and Provost) lo sit in Parliam'-, it hath Denomination from an eminent Monasleij (whetcwT
some walls yel stand) believed to be the mother, at least the Eldesi Daughter of Bancbor in
Wales; there is a Large Church and a Bell Tower which were in part of the Monkish
Inildings, bat raised out of its rubbage much reedifyed, and wholly roofed and slated, by
James, first Lord Claneboys, who also built a great stable and olher houses, and planted
Orchards, and fenced in cround near unto the same, and is a. noble seat capable of Improve-
nenis. In ihc middle olthis Town is 1 large lofied.skted house, whichservesamasler which
tcacheth Latin for a dwelling and the Scholars for a School. At the end of the Town is a
small Bay lor barks, and on it a large slated house, double lofted, intended at (irsi for a
Custom bouse, both built by the said Lord Claneboy. from hence is the usuall passage over
Ihe Lough to Carrickfergus. And now, having traced all the North-east Coast of Ihe whole
Barony, let us note that all along from hence to (he Bar of Slrongford River Ihe inhabitants

142 Old Belfast.

do manure and dung the Land with Sea Oar, by them called Tangle, which being spread
on it and plowed down makes Winter Grain and Summer Barley grow in abundance, and
clean, without weeds, cocles, or tares. The roads are pleasant and smooth in depth of
Winter. Now returning to Gray Abbey, which is the center, and on the W^est side of this
Barony, we come next to view newtown Parish, which is a large mannor. The Town of the
same name, called in Irish Ballynoit, is five miles of good smooth way distant from Gray
Abbey. It hath a weekly good market and is incorporated, and sends men to Parliament, &c,
as Bangor doth. Here is a fair neat circular building, octagonall, all hewn free stone, carved,
painted, and guilded, with a small door and Stayres ascending to a battlement (which is breast
high from the Vault) within it, and from the Pavement of the said Vault issue divers spouts,
carved with several! Antiqz heads, which at the Coronation and Nativity days of our King
disembogue wine to the glad and merry multitude. In the middle of this Fabrick, and upon
the Vault aforesaid, stands a pillar of hewn Stone of Eight squares, 20 feet high, with a Lyon
Syant on the Top. This piece of work is called the Market Cross, whence are made publick
(with the Town Solemnities) all proclamations that come from the Chief Governour of this
Kingdome. The body of this Fabrick, which is seen of four Streets, hath the King's Arms
fronting to the great Street, and the Town Armes on another Square thereof, thus, blazoned
Azure, a Crescent with both horns upward proper, from the nom brill whereof riseth a dexter,
arm and hand Armed, holding a flower de luce, reaching to the chiefe of the coat or ; also
other Shields armoriall belonging to the said first Lord Montgomery, and to his Matches and
Allies, with the badges of these Kingdoms are on the rest of the Squares aforesaid.
In this Town (which hath good Springs and Pump Wells, and a brook or bawn at each end
of the great Street) there is a Free Schoole, with good incouragement for a master to teach
Latin, Greek, and I^gick, given by the said S*^ Robert Colvill, who is purchaser and
Proprietor of the said Town and all the Lands in the parish. There is also a fair long
Church, part whereof were the walls of a priory which stood there ; but new walls were
erected and a new Church (which hath a Square Tower five Storys high, and a great bell in
it, joyned without any partition but large freestone Pillars and Arches), all which were roofed,
slated, and made by the said first Lord Montgomery in his lifetime, and by his order after his
death ; and contiguous to the old church walls, where stood the said Lord's house that was
accidentally burned Anno 1664, S*^ Robert Colvill aforesaid hath in few years, from the
foundation, built up a large double-roofed house, stables, coach-houses, and all other
necessary or convenient edifices, with inner, outward, and back courts, and spacious well-
planted olitory, fruit, and ])leasure Gardens, which have Fish Ponds, Spring Well, long and
broad Sanded Walks, and Bowling Green, all thereof walled about and reared (with divers
curious hewn stone Gates, uniformly regarding one another in a regular and comely manner) ;
the whole considered, there is few such, and so much work to be seen any one dwelling in
Ireland, nor any so great done by a Gentleman at his own expence. Near Newtown is a
piece of ground called Killtonga, in which hath been the cell of some devout person, but few
remains thereof are now to be seen. This lyes on the North side, but towards the South of the
Town stands the ruinous walls of the Church of an Antient Abbey, called Movilla, which had
large revenues Scatercd at distance from it ; now it is inclosed with an old wall, which serves
for a cemetary to the whole Parish and Town. None but persons of the best sort being buried
in the said new-built Church, which was parcell of the Priory aforesaid. The said house.
Gardens, and Church Stand on alevell, and on the head of Though coan, which is salt water,
13 mile long and five broad at some places, which washeth all the West side and South end of
this Barony, and hath in it many Islands, whereof some are accessible at low water, for it
ebbs above two miles and more downwards from Newtown, leaving a Large Strand ; and
hath also in it oysters, which are dregged in deep water, and some gathered from rocks on
which they grow, and from of the banks within the sea, which are thrown thereon after great
South and West winds, being left bare at low ebbs, and are good as well in Summer as
Winter. There be in this lough also store of mullets, plaice, Sand eels, Strand Cockles, and
in harvest time (some years) herrings are taken, and everywhere on the Western Coast of the
said Barony are abundance of wild fowle of all sorts, especially Swans, whereof a tame breed
are yearly kept at the fresh Lough of Ballygalgot Castle aforesaid, and Barnicles, Wild Gees,
Seapys, Cormorants, Sea Larks, Red Shanks, and those other before-named in the lower
Barony. And within the Land from Bangor to Kirkstown aforesaid is a long red bog which
gives passage by Land (from the said Lough Coan to the Main Sea) but at five or six places.
All this Bogg over it affords the great harrow Goose, Land Barnades, Grove Snipes, and in
season, woodcocks ; also Hares and Foxes for Game. The Corn and Grass-fields have
Partridge, Quailes, and larks, the Trees and Hedges yield many black birds, thrushes,
Feltifares (about one bigness), Linnets, Goldfinch, and other Melodious Birds in plenty ; as
elsewhere in the said Barony, this part, called the great Ards as aforesaid, hath good Grain of
all sorts, and abundance of fuell cut by the spade) and dryed in the Sun. Out of the said
boggs are digged up (many times) long and great firr trees and black oak without branches,

Proclamation by the Duke of Schonberg. 143

which are titsh and good timbei. The Oak serves for great beams for floors, and so doth
the fir, w'^'> will also affords Deals.

Lastly, as appuilenances to the said Mannor of Newtown is Ihe high hill called Scrabo,
foimerly and now intended for a Deer Park, and therein is the quarrey of Ihe best freestone
that may be seen anywhere, if either durableness or smoothness and variety of green veins
therein [when pollishcd) be considered, y stones whereof are well known in Dublin, and
taken thither and elsewhere in great abundance ; also, within Ihe Liberty of the said Town
is a Large Salt Matsb lull of medicinal herbs, the Grass wholesom for diseased horses and
caltle, for which the nelherland Dutch (before they had well learned or practised navigation
to Ihe East and West Indies, offered above ^2,000 fine and ^50 per ann. rem to have it for
61 years in Lease from the said first Lord Montgomery ; but his Li'ship being tyed to ■
britlish plantation, and (if that had been dispenced with) fearing the Trade of the britlish
might be absurped in y' Dutch industry, and the Town of Newlown and those of Cumber
and Bangor, which are at furthest but 3 miles from the said Maish, hindered or discouraged
in their building, that proposal! was not accepted. I conclude with two or three Remarks
more, viz'- :— Thai from the great bogg issue many rills and Streams which makes small
Ittooks sometimes almost dry in Summer to the Sea on each side Ihe upper half of the
Barony. And on Ihcni each plowland almost hath had a mill for grinding Oats dryed in
Potts, or singed and leased in the Straw, which was the old Irish custome, the meal whereof
was called Graden. veiy couise. The mills are called Danish ot Ladle Mills ; the Axle tree
»ood upr^ht, and the small stones or querns on the Top ihereofi Ihe water wheel was at
the lower end of the Axle tree, and did run horizontally amongst the water, small force
driving il ; the same waters or Brooks lieing inclosed in Walls of loose Stones on ihe Strand
of the Lough Coyn in little liays made wares or fish yards, which walls did suffer Ihe tides to
come insensibly through them till four hours' flood which (for the last Iwo bouts) flowed over
Ihe wait; y" did the sea run strong, and the fishes followed the stream, and, finding food brou^t
down thither by Ihe fresh water brook, and yet the bay was ealme ; the ftsh remained
there till first Ihe ebb left the wall to appear, and then shuck through, as it came in
insensibly, so that the fish, not getting back through the wall, were taken ; but since fish
days were neglected, those yards decay'd.

St., — This is for your diversion at a Leasurc hour. What is woilh yout noting you may
cull out for truth on the credit of your Servant,

WM. MONTGOMERY.
Dublin, Ihe list ef July, 16S3.
(PiniertoH MSS.) (MS. I. i. z. Library, Trinity Coll., Dublin.)

proclamatton b^ tbe Duftc of Scbonbcrg, Belfast,
September, 1689,

j HEREAS divers loose and idle people have of
late committed several robberies, and daily con-
tinue them, under pretence of following the
army. Therefore we have thought fit hereby to
declare that none do presume to follow the army,
and, under that pretence, rob and plunder the
country through which we pass. And all such
who shall, notwithstanding this our proclama-
sSi tion, follow the army (suttlcrs and such as are
hired excepted) shall be deemed and punished as robbers. And we
shall further order and direct the provost marshall and his men to
seize and apprehend them as such, that they may be accordingly
punished. SCHONBERG.

Given at our Head Quarters at Belfast the ist day of September,
l68g.

(Pinkerton MSS.)

Old Belfast.

ri*^

©iar? of Col. ZCbomas 35cIUngbam when at Belfast,
3unc, 1690.

ERE is in [he

'astic- Belli nghan

Colonel Tbomas Bellinghani, kept during (be yeai
iding the whole of King WiUiam's Campsign i
< the' last year, when Colonel Bellinghnin attended Ih
ed as Guide to the Army till after the Bailie of tb

With tbe exception of the portion relating to tbat bitt
\i quoted in Macaulay's Hislary] this Journal has r
published, but a careful transcript has been made from the
liy Mr. Garstin. F.s.A.. v.p.k.i.a., who has Itindly supi
fjllowing extracts (additions being enclosed in brackets) :-

:^Tbi

[May] y- 28"' [1690]
Raine in y' morning. We went to Hyle lake [Hoylake] and ship't our horses
early and sayl'd about 3 in y* after noon. We came att night in sight of the Isle
of Man. Our ship f Betty of Biddiford, Tho: Marshal, mr. [Master].

A fayr gale in y* morning, but calm about nine. We lay most of y" day near
y* Mull of Galloway, and att evening came to an anchor near y° Copeland Islands.

y'ao"'
Some showers. About 3 this morning we came to an anchor at y* White
house. 1 went with mr. King to Carrigfergus, saw Dean Ward, and mr. King
heard y* Kirke was displeas'd att him. About 12 I came by boat to Bellfast.
Din'd att mr. m'Cartny's, and sup't with mr. Twigg and lay that night w*"* him.
I wrote to Nabby [his wife, Abigail (Hancock), at Preston, in Lancashire].

r 31'" \?i<

\" and so throughout]

Waited on Ma: Gen; Kirk. Was with y
eiging. I din'd w* y" Earl of Meath, and

|t [Sunday]

Much raine. I went to Magherelin. Heard mr. Cubbidge preach. Din'd att
his house w'» y' Coll. of the ISrandenburgh Regiment, and was after with major
Williams and Capt: Brcreton att mrs. Kelly's. Y° Lord Drogheda pass't by.

Duke [Schomberg], who v
came to Jo: White's.

Diary of Col. Thomas Bellingham. 145

y« 2*

Severall showers. Some Quakers came to see me. I walk't in y* afternoon
to Moyragh. Saw S' Arthur Rawden's house, and walk* w**» Capt. Ross to y*
Conservatory. The house and much of y« goods are well preserved.

ye 3d

A fayr day. I went to y« mill. In y« afternoon I went to Drummore, and was
treated by Capt. Brereton.

A fayr morning. Some showers in y^ afternoon. I went to Lisboum, waited
on M.G. [Major-General] Kirke, delivered him his letter, din'd w**» mr. Aleway, and
was w**» y« Duke. Some French horse came in. I saw cousen Purcell. I wrote
to Nabby and Dan by y^ poast, and came home in good time.

Abundance of rain. J. Shepheard came hither and brought news of y*
K.[ing] leaving london yesterday.

ye 5th

High wind and some showers. Shepheard stayes still here. We have an
account of a prey being taken by y« soldiers of Bellturbet, and part of them being
brought into these quarters to be sold.

ye yih

Wind and some showers. Shepheard went hence this morning. We hear y*
enemy are advancing.

y« 8*^ [Sunday]

Very much raine. I receiv'd y« Sacram.[ent] at Macherelin, where mr.
Cubbidge preach'd a very suitable sermon for y« day. I din'd w**» him and was w***
mr. John Disny. Capt. Lowry came hither and stayed all night.

ye gth

Still wet weather. Lowry went hence this morning. I designed for Hills-
borough, but y« raine prevented me. John White pay'd Gillett his rent for grazing.
[Last paragraph not contemporary.]

A fayr day. I went to Lisburn, but y^ D.[uke] was gone to Bellfast, thinking
to meet y® K.[ing], but retum'd. I came w**» Capt. Powell and stay'd some time
with mr. Moore att Hillsborough, w°** is preparing for y" King's reception.
Y'night there were severall bonefires made is [sic] beleiving y" K. was landed, but
it prov'd an turn's fatuus, Severall Regiments are on theyr march towards a
rendezvous near Ardmagh and Legachory. C. G. [Commissary-General] Douglas
commands them.

ye J J th

A very hott day. We wash'd our sheep. I din'd w**» Capt. Powell at Drum-
more. Some french challenged some horses in theyr parkes, but y" Major and
Capt. Powell sent them to y® Gaurd. There were more bonefires made this night.

ye J 2th

Very hott. I went to Moyragh. I saw Jewell's Regiment of horse, w*'** is a
very good one, but y® Danish Regiment of Gaurds is y® best 1 ever saw. They
are an orange coulour'd livery fac'd w*^ crimson velvett. I din'd at Moyragh and
saw Mr. Sb[t or h ?]eeres, Capt. Hamilton and Lieut. Hamilton, who was att
Gemonstown [now Castle-Bellingham, Co. Louth]. Eben Loe [Ebenezer Lowe]

was w'*» me.

13th

Very hott. I went to Moyragh. Saw one Hatch who came a week ago from
Drogheda. He call'd at Gemonstowne, and sayes things are very well there, and

14^

Old Belfast.

that there is much come growing thereabouts. He sayes K, James his army is in

an ill condition for want of most necessaryes. There are about 7,000 of them
encamp'd near Ardee. There are 3 Regiments in Dundalk and 3 in Drogheda, to
which they have added no fortifications more than what were last summer. 1 saw
CapL Wm. Ponsonby att Moyragh and Lieut. Coll. Peirce.

y 14'"

A great shower of lainc after dinner, about w°^ time we fancy'd we heard some
great guns off from Bellfast, w°'> we hope are for y* K. landing. Here came James
Hunter, y* Quaker, and a quarter master of Levison's Dragoons. Y" K. landed at
Carrigfergus [written over "Donaghadee"],

A fayr day. 1 went to Church,
dragoons are quartered at Macharetin.

' [Sunday]
and din'd v

. Cubbidge. Heyford's

y. ,6.h

A hott close day. I was sent for by 2 this morning, and before 6 I came to
Bellfast. I was kindly received by y" D. and Kirke, and favourably recommended
to y* K., whose hand I kiss'i, and he promised to remember me. I was most of y*
aflemoon w"* y" Secretary. Y' K. road out in y' evening, I lay w"" mr. Mason.
1 this day wrote letters for England to Nabby, etc.

A hott day. I gave y" K. a petition. Din'd at Rourke's with mr. Aleway and
others, and came borne late. We mett with some french theives.

Very hott. 1 sent Art away early this morning w'*' letters.
tram Toby Purcell. Mr. Loe was here.

had an answear

Very hott. I walked to y' Mill and wash'd there.

y. 2olh

Very great showers. I went to Hillsborough, saw y K., and dranke of his
wine. A messenger came from y* L'' Dover to desire leave to transport himselfe
and family to Ostend. 2 dragoons were brought in prisoners. I was w'* my L*
Meath and mr. Aleway att theyr tents, and brought Hunter y* quaker's wife
behind me home.

148 Old Belfast.

tins WllUlam tbe ttblrt an^ bis Court at Selfaat,
3une, 1690.

Bxlnuli Jram Correspondence, &"i-., of George Clarke (Secretary for War), in Trinity
ColUge, Dublin, moi/e by miliam Pinkirim, F.S.A.

Jutu i8th, t6go. Lilt of the General Officers at Belfast.

The Duke of Schonberg, The Count de Solms, The Count de Sehonberg, The
Earl of Oxford, The Duke of Wirtember^, The General Ginckell, Lieutenant-
Generat Douglas, Major-General Scravenmore, Sir John Lanier, Major-General
Kirk, Marquis la Fourse, Major-General Tetlan, Lord Sidney, Earl of Nassau,
The Treasurer, The Secretary at War, Col. du Camelon Cambon, Quartermaster
of Ireland.

The Fiscalts, 2 ; Commissary of the Provisions, 2 ; Provosts Marshall;, 3 ; two
Commissaries of the Musters, one Waggon Master, Hospitall.

GEORGE CLARKE.

It is ordered that Du Perron, Captain of the Waggons, will observe, and cause
to be observed, on the march, the household of his majesty in the following order :

TENT DU ROI.

3 Chariots des Cusines (sic).

1 De la Boucherie.

2 De la Boulongeric,

3 De la Pouillerier.
6 Du Garde Mange.
8 De la Cave.

S Conveniers de Table avec linges vessels, &c.
2 Confiturier.

4 Avec les sents.

1 Du clerk Coffereux.

2 De la B Ian chi sense.

The other waggons will follow in the order according to the list regulated by
his Majesty, Made at the quarters of the Court at Belfast, 1690, i8th June.

AUVERQUERK.

Rules and Orders to be observed in the March of the Army.

■ N'ihe Quarters, where the Court shall have its apartments,
\ the houses in the quarters shall be divided according
I the quantity there shall be, — The Duke of Schonberg
I having choice the first. Count Solmes the second. Count
I Schonberg the third, and the rest of the Generals as they
on the list, without giving a house to any person whatso-
r before those on the list be quartered. No one shall
I take any quarters unless it be marked by the Quartermaster-
I General or his Adjutant, and if any be found who marks
or rubs out the chalk which was marked by the Quaner-
Er-General shall be punished.

e shall march before the guards of the quarters, and shall all place
1: — (Q the orders given by the Quartermaster-GeneraL

Rules and Orders to be observed in the March. 149

When ihe baggage shall march, the King shall have at the head of all, before
the Artillery itself, six wagons, Duke Schonberg three, and the rest of the
Generals one. After thai, the rest of the King's baggage, wiih all those of the
Court, shall follow the Artillery, according to the list herewith appended, and the
rest of the baggage oflhe Generals after, and then shall follow the baggage of each
brigade, as they shall inarch. If they march in two or three hnes, and if the
baggage can follow the lines, they shall.

The Guard being once placed, no one whatsoever of the Army shall pass, on
pain of Death, without the King's express order. All Waggon Masters obliged to
come to the Waggon Master General every evening to receive his orders.

June ig, i6go. GEO, Clarke.

Old Belfast.

Proclamation issued by William the Third when in Belfast

WILLIAM R.

jUR chief intention and design in this our
Royal Expedition being to reduce our King-
dom of Ireland to such a state that all who
behave themselves as becomes dutiful and
loyal subjects may enjoy their Liberties and
Possessions under a just and equal Govern-
' ment, and to the end that all our loving
subjects who at present are in our obedience may 6nd the
good effects of Our Protection, and as much as possible in the
distractions of War feel the benefit and advantage of con-
tinuing under the care of Our Power, Our Will and Pleasure
is that all officers, soldiers, and others belonging to our Army-
do so carry themselves, both in Garrison, Quarters, and where-
soever they shall march, as persons ought to do who are under
Military Discipline, and that they do not presume on any
account to spoil or rob any Parks or Warrens, Plunder the
Houses, do violence to or extort or take any horses, cows, or
other Cattle from the Inhabitants of the Towns or Quarters
where they are or shall be. but that they duly pay such
reasonable Rates for those Provisions and necessaries they
have or shall have occasion to make use of as is or shall
be appointed by us, with proportion to the pay and entertain-
ment they receive: And we do strictly charge all officers,
soldiers, and persons whatsoever to observe and obey these
Our Rules and Orders, and behave themselves accordingly :
And all Colonells, Captains, and other officers are hereby
Required not only to keep themselves within these due bounds
and limits, but to see that their respective soldiers do the same,
as they will answer the contrary at their Peril, it being Our
Resolution, upon Complaint made to Us by any person
aggrieved, to punish all such as in anywise offend against and
act contrary to these Our Orders. And that no one may
plead or pretend ignorance of this Our Royal Will and
Pleasure, We do hereby direct and command that these
Orders be published in all the Quarters of Our Army, and
that one Comissary of the Musters do Publicly read them at

Proclamations issued by William the Third.

151

the head of each Regiment so often as they shall muster the
same.

Given at Our Court at Belfast, the 19th day of June,
1690, in the Second Year of our Reign,
By his Maties. Command,
A True Copie. Geo. ClaRKE.

LETTER TO THE KING FROM GENERAL KIRKE.

May it please your Majesty,

According lo your Matie's coniandes I haveoidred the troopes to maich to the Newrey,
who will be all there lo moiho (sic) night. The enclosed came from Ihence by the bearer,
who told me a Drumer of ihe Enemeye's bad brought a letter for me, which maid me op«D
the letters Directed to Lieut. -Col. Purscll. I do not know Ihe meaning of my Lord Dover's
letter, except 'tis to know the sarlenty of yor matie being hear. Vor matie will therfore be
pleased to order me what answer I shall send, or whether I shall keep the Drumer.
May it please yor matie,

Your matie's most dulifful servl..
Drumore, June jglh, r6go. KIRKE.

Sir,

Drumore, June Ihe ip, alt 12 a eloik nigkl.

Ml, Clarke, Secretary a

Proclamation issued at Hillsborough.

WILLIAM R.

IHEREAS Complaint has been made to Us
of great Disorders committed by the officers
and soldiers of Our Army by the Liberty
they assume of Pressing Horses and Carts,
to the great Prejudice of Our Service, and
Loss and Damage of Our Loving Subjects
who are owners of the same : Our Will and
Pleasure is that no officer or soldier within Our pay and enter-
tainment, or other person whatsoever, do presume to press

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any horse or cart belonging to any of Our Subjects without
leave and order first had under our Royal Sign Manual :
And that whosoever shall dare, without leave and order as
aforesaid, to press any horse or cart, if he be an Officer, he shall
be dismissed Our Service ; if a Trooper, he shall stand three
several times on the Picquett ; and if a Dragooner or Foot
Soldier, he shall run the Gauntlope thrice through the whole
Regiment. And we do stricriy charge and command all
persons that shall have leave and order to press, as aforesaid,
only to pay such rates as they shall agree for with the owners,
under the penalties afore-mentioned. And that no Person
may pretend ignorance, We hereby direct and command that
these Our Orders be forthwith published at the Head of every
Regiment.

Given at Our Court at Hillsborough, the 20th day of
June, 1690, in the Second Year of Our Reign,
By His Majesty's Command,

Geo. Clarke.

I have lefl Hi Kilrea, Antrim, Bel^t, MaghaiDfell, Armagh, &c., several sick men, to
the numt>er of above three score, most of which, I am informed by letter, are in a condilioD
to come up and serve. But for those who are a» yet very weak, it will be necessary to press
horses for them from place lo place. I humbly desire you therefore, sir, to get an order from
the King, for the ofiicer of my regiment, which I am sending down, to press horses upon the
road at any place between the aforesaid places, and the army where we shall be, not
exceeding the number of thirty ; without it, I shall be forced to leave several of my best men
behind, and lose some.
(Noldaitd.) GENERAL CUTES (or CUSTES).

3ourne? to ?e iftortb, auflust 7tb, 1708.

Bv Dr. THOMAS MOLYNEUX.

Deft Dublin, and came in 3 hours and \ to Bellough, a small
n village, thro' a very flat, open corn Countrey, good cawsey Roads,
I passing thro' Santry and Swords, which Last is a Borough, and
" ~ns to have been a place of some Antiquity, for severall oM Ruins
are here, and, among others, of one of the old round Steeples,
I which stands near the church. Having dined at Bellough, we went
I on thro' the same kind of Countrey, and much about the same time
thro' Balruddery, Julianslown, HrMge on the Nanny water (which
bounds the County of Meath from Dublin) to Droghedagh. Drog-
' hedagh is a pretty Large town, Larger Houses, and eve^ way
liker Dublin than any one I have Seen in Ireland. It stands on the famous River Boyne,
which \% navigable within Walls to Boats of 40 or 50 tot). Its Walls and Fortifications are
very old and out of Repair, having sufTered much, as have also most of the Honsc* then
standing, in its Siege by O. Cromwej. Here is, on the South side the River, on a height
W" comands the Town, and from whence you have a fair Prospect of it, a remarkable
Danes' Mount, as it seems to ha\-e been, but to which there are now built 5 or 6 half Bastions
of Stone Work, with a Ditch round it, by Cromwel, as they Relate. From Dioi^heda we

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went up the River Boyne, on the North side, to Nouth in two hours. About half way up
you pass by y« Remarkable Foard where was performed the Famous Pass of the Boyne.
Here yet remains a broad Foard or two ; and on t'other side the River the Ruins of the
Irish Battery, which, with a few Sculls, are the only marks of this happy place of action.

SUNDAY.

Having spent the morning at Knouth, after Dinner Cosn: S. Dopping and I went on
cross the countrey, in about three hours, to Ardee. The way is mostly in the County of
Louth, fine open sheep-walk, all hills and Dales, making from a height a most pleasant
prospect, such variety of fine risings, with some few scattered inclosures and Gentlemen's

MAP OF BATTLE OF THE BOYNE,

Houses everywhere presenting themselves. Ardee is a compact little Town — A Burrough —
and seems to have been once a place of Good strength, for the many strong old castles and
Double Walls that it has. From hence, three hours more Brought us to Dundalk, an ugly
Town, and, I think, remarkable in nothing but for an extraordinary good Inn here, as good
as most in England.

MONDAY.

We designed for Ardniagh, and went 16 mile towards it, mostly on the very wild
mountains. The Fews. These Mountains are of a Boggy, heathy Soile, the Road thro' them
of a Rocky Gravel ; in all this way meet but one house, and nothing like Corn, Meddow, or
Enclosures. We baited on them at the Second House, which is called black Ditch, where is
also a small foot Barrack, but without any Soldiers. Here was miserable Entertainment, not
so much as tolerable Grass within two mile of *em. From hence two or three miles brings
you to the End of the Mountains, and then you enter into a pleasant Enclosed Corn Countrey,
which in 5 or 6 miles brings you thro' very new made Roads to Ardmagh.

Ardmagh is a very pretty Town and Burrough situated on a Hill. The Cathedral,
which is yet in the same place where St. Patrick first fixed his See, stands at the highest part
of the Town, and from whence you have all round you a very beautifuU prospect of as well an
Improved and enclosed Countrey as can be. The choir of this Cathedral has been Lately
rebuilt and much adorned by the Dean Drelincourt, who has wainscotted and painted it all
at his own Cost, so that it is now, I think, handsomer than any in Dublin. Here is also a
very handsome free School now building, and good Barracks. Cousn Dopping was this
Evening Sworn a Burgess of y° Town, and I was complimented with my freedome.

TUESDAY.

We went to my Estate at Castle Dillon, and so to Legacorry, which is a very pretty
Village belonginp; to Mr. Richardson. From hence Mr. Chichester, a Relation of my Lord
Donnegall's, mvited us to dine with him at the house where he lives, belonging to one Mr.
Workman, within half a mile of Portadown, miles from Ardmagh. Mr. Workman

shewed us here vast plantations of Fir Trees of All diflferent ages from the seed. They thrive
here mighty well, and this Gentleman makes a considerable Gain in this way. After Dinner
we proceeded on our journey towards Belfast, where Mr. Chichester promised to accom|iany
us. We passed thro' Portadown, a pretty village situated on the River , and where

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Old Belfast.

mighty pret^ English-like enclosed

so many piotesianu were drowned in 41 Rebellion by the Irish. Here our horses puced
over in n wherry, the Bridge which they were then b
being not yet finiEhcd. From hence we went on thto'
countrey. and well planted with Large Trees, to Mr,

miles Crani Aidm^h, situated witTiin half a mile of the South Banks of Loi^ih
Neagh. This Town is at present the greatest mart of LJnnen Manufactories in the North,
being almost entirely peopled with Linncn Weavers, And oil by the core and cost of Mr,
Brownlow, who on his nrst Establishing the trade here, bought up everything that was
brought lo the market of Cloath and lost at flrBl considerably ; but at Length the
thing fixing itself, he is now by the same methods a considerable Gainer. This Gentleman
is more curious than ordinary, and has by him several old Irish Manuscripls which he
con Read and understand very well. He shewed me one in Parchment of the Bible (as I
remember), pretended to be written by Si, Patrick's own hand, but this must be a Fable.
This Gcnttciiiaii is not salisfyed about the Feliifying Quality of Lough Ncagh waters, and
.■iCi'rns r^llKT to oFleum the Stones found on its Banks to lie Lapides sui Generii than
I'LiTibciiuns. 1 iiivinR Suppeil with him we lay at an Inn.

WEDNESDAY.

We went all Ofiether towards Lisbon fJiV^. About 2 or 3 miles from Lurgan is a village
called Maherlin, where liveth the Bp. of Dromore. Here I stoped 10 a visit lo my old
TatoT, Mr. Redman, who lives with bis Uncle Cuppaidge, Ministr of the Place. From
hence I followed 'em, and passed by Moyragh, a fine seat tielonging to Sr Arthur Royden's
Family, leaving Warrenston and Hillsborough lo the Right, thro' the fine Improved County
of Down, which, with Ardmagh, are ihe finest Counties in the North, to Lisbon, miles.

Here wo designed to have wailed on the Bp. of Down, who lives wilhio a small mile lo the
Town ; bul he tieing not at home, we spent our Time in viewine the Miserable Rutnes of the
Late Fire which happened here, and not a house in the Town Escaped. If the story of the
Phtenix be ever Irue, sure 'tis in this Town. For here you see one of the beautifullesl Towns
perhaps in the 3 kingdoms — all Brick houses, slated, of one bigness, all new, and almost
finished, rising from the most terrible Ruhish that can be Imagined. Wlien I stood in the
Church Yard, 1 thought I never had seen so dreadfull a Scene before, all round me the churdi
burnt to the Ground, The tombstones all cracked with Ihe tire. Vast Trees that stood
round the Church Yard Burnt lo Trunks, Ijird Conway (lo whom this town belongs) — his
" ' - ■ -> — I ■ o Ashes, and all his (jatdcns

House, Iho'

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in the lame condition, with the Tiees in the Church Vard. 'Tis scarcely conceivable such
dttmftit Eflecti should arise &oin so small cause and in sn short s lime as the; relate. Only
Some Turf Ashes thrown on a Dunghill, which a brisk Wind blon'itig towards the Town
Raised and threw on the Shingles of the next house, which, being like Spunk, by a lone
Drought of Weather which had Chen happened, took tire, and the Wind eonlinuing what it
had begun, the whole Town, in half an hour, was irrecoverably in Flames, insomuch that this
accident happening whilst they were at Church on a Sunday miming, by 4 the lire wai
eitii^isbed. And not a house and but a few of their Goods Remained in being. lis Rise is
likely to be ms suddain as its folL Lord Conway has renewed all the Leases, for a year or
two. Rent free; gives them as much Wood as they please to cut of his own Woods, which
Me Dear, and obliges them to build Regular, so thai if the story of the Fh<Enix be ever true,
luie 'tis in this Town. This Town was formerly the greatest Linnen manufactory
of the North before the Fire ; now much removed to Lutgan and other adjacent places.
However, I do not doubt but when 'tis quite rebuilt, 'twill be rather in a more thriving
miles to BellfasI, thro' a Counlrey,

condition than before. From hence we w

all the way from Acdmagh, Extreamly pleasant, well Improved, and Inhabited by English.
iiel&st is a very hand^otne, thriving, well-]>eopled Town ; a great many new houses and
good Shops in'l. The Kolks seemed all very busy and eniployed in trade, the Inhabitants
beiim for the roost part merchants, or cmploy'd under 'em, in this Sea Port, which stands,
conveniently enough, at the very inner pan of Carrickfergus. Thro' the Town there Runns
a small Rivulet, not much belter than Ih.it they call the Glibli in Dublin, which, however,
is of great use for btlnEitig their gooiis 10 the Key when the Tide serves. Here we saw as
Dismall EITects of another tire as that at Lisbon, which here, in the night, had Lately burnt
a house belonging to the Loid Donnegall's Family (whose Town this isj, with three Voui^
Ladys, sisters to (he present Earl. It stands seperale from the Kest of the Houses, which as
it prevented the Flames going further, so it cut of timely Relief in the midst of courts and
gardens, which are an Extreamly noble old Improvement, made by old St Arthur Chichester,
who was, about too years ago, the Establisher of this Family, and Indeed of the whole
Kingdome, Especially the Xoitb, by pbnting English Colonies and civilizing the Irish.
These Improvements ace all Inclosed in a kind of Focliiicatioa, being Designed for a place of

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Old Belfast.

Strength as well ds Pleasure, and is a lasting Monument of Ihii kind of Ifie greatness of its
founder. Here we saw i very Good Manufacture of Elarthen Wore, which conies nearest
Delft of any made in Ireland, and really is not much short of it. Tis very clean and prelty,
and universally u^ed in the North, and I Ihink nol so much owing to any Peculiar ha|)piness in
their clay, but rather to the manner of beating and mining it up. Here they have Barracks
for we lay here this night. And the next day —

THURSDAY—

Dined with the Soveriign, Mr. McCartney, where we were made free of the Town. Afler
Dinner we went on towards Carrickfergus, aboul two or three mile from Town, We struck
ofT from the Road, which runs all Long the Sea, to view a Park here belonging lo the Lords
of Donnegal. Here they carryed us up a pretty high Hill, where is a very pleasant Founlain,
well shaded with Trees, and from whence you have a very Gne Prospect of Caitickfei^us, the
Bay, and Belfast, which from hence makes a very good shew. Relurning lo the Road, about
half way to Belfast, we parted with Mr. Chichester, and continued our journey to C^rrick-

FRIDAY.

Caerickfercus is a place of good natural strength, situated on a Rocliy Promontory '
which runs out into the Sea ; nol ao big, clean, or thriving a Town in any wise as Belfast,
ll has iiile in't remarkaiile but L"* Donn^all's monument in the Church, which is very rich
and great i the great Caslle belonging lo the Crown, and a most noble old house of Lord
Donnegall's Family built by S' Arthur Chichesler, Ejitieamly greal and noble, but wanting
the Gardens at Belfast, which, were they joyned, would make beyond comparison the finest
Imptovemeol in Ireland. It has a line situation fronting the Bay, all the Grand' and
regularities of a modem building, and shews the great spirit of the builder ; but What he set
np is now making hast to fall to the Ground. From Carrickfergus we went thro' a wild
country in about 4 hours to Antrim ; we passed thro' Castle Norton, a small village.

AnxRiM is a pretty good Town situated on the North East Banks of Lough Neogh. It
enjoys a considerable Linnen Trade a< present. Here Lord Mazarreen has a pretty good
house, and good Improvements about it, where he lives. We saw here the Largest piece of
Lough Neagli Stone that 1 have ever seen ; 'twas as thick as one's body. Irregularly shaped,
perfectly like y" Root of a Tree, the Trunk and Small branches of the Root Loped off. This
piece, not only for its bigness and shape, but also for the grain of it loo. appeared the most
like Stone of any I have seen. His Lordship assures mc there are several such like sticking
in y° Banks of the Lough, and that he does not doubt but that this Lough has this pelrifyil^

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Quality ; Nay, thai he could have shewn me, had he been at Anlrim when I was there, a
piece of which half is a Stone, and half is yel peifecl Wood. Mr. Maclean, Minisr of the
Town, gave mc here ceclnin Siones ol a whliish Brown Colour, of a griiiy Subsiance, much
the biggness and shape of a Polaloe, save thai Ihey all have litle perlurbnnce. by which, he
assurei- me, ihey aiick in the Banks of this Lough near the surface of the Water, the real
standing cleai out, and ihat they there are found to grow till their Weight, and ihe Water
washing away the Earth where they stick, they fail to the boltome. Of these stones Ihe
Arch Bpe of Dublin gave me several before, and related the acco' of Ihem.

Having seen in the niinuis of the Dublin Society an accu' of Pish called DoUeyn, a
sort of Herring or Trout peculiar to this Lough (which also is mentioned in Giraldus Cam-
brtnsis Tapeg. Hiber.), I Inquired for it Al Anlrim, hut could not gel Ihe sight of one, tho'
this was the Season of Catching them, and they lold me there had been several Boat Loadi
brought in there the Market Day before, but were bought up for drying. From Anlrim vre
went 10 Shane's Castle — Mr. O'Neill's — a very aniient building about one mile from Anlrim,
situated on the very Banks of Lough Neagh, so near ihat it and y= (iarden Walli are washed
by Ihe Water, and from hence arrived in 4 or 5 hours thro' a miserable, wild. Barbarous,
bo^y counlrey, to as bad a Lodging in a poor Village called Magheteoghill.

SATURDAY.

Having Pas-ied Ihc Night but ill, we were Soon on our journey, and arrived early thro'
B wild, open Cuuntrey al Ballymony — a pretty, dean, English-like Town belonging to the
Eail of Antrim , who has here in possession a prodigious scope of Land, I believe of some 30
or 40 miles in Length. Here we looke a Guide lo Ihe Gyanl's Cawsey. The Land about
it, Sl particularly ihe head Land under which il Lyes, is very good Sheepwalk. and liei
very high, so that you have from hence, as indeed you have from most of the hills in thli
Easterly pari of Ihe North, a fair prospect of several parts of Scotland and Ihe Isle of Man.
You go down lo the Cawsey by a very narrow path along the side of Ihe Hill. I carryed
along with me Ihe print of the Cawsey after Mr. Sandy's Draught from the PkilBsapkical
transmtiims, as also Dr. Molvneuxe's Discnurse of il in a Letter te Dr. Listsr, also in tho
transBctisus, and compared them both on the place as strictly as I could. The Draught is
pretty well as to the Cawsey itself, but not so Exact in the face of the Hill and the Oraont
or Loomes as ii should be ; and indeed ii does not repiessent y* Cawsey it.se]f to run from
Ihe Hill so as it does. 1 think it would be as necessary and usefull to have a plan of it as
well OS a prospect as for the acco' on't in Dr. Listens Lttter.

Having taken a sufficient view of the Gyant's Cawsey, we mounted again in order to
go to Colrain. Wc rid here a good way along the North ?hore on great sands, where I am

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told are Warrens of a prodigious Length of Excellent Rabets. About three mile from
y* Cawsey you come to a Fameous old place called Dunluce. This was an old Castle, formerly
the seat of y* Earls of Antrim. Its situation is very romantick and out of the way. *Tis
built on a Large Rock, Entirely separated from the Land. It has l^en a vast Large Pile, and
covers the whole Rock,so that you can spit out of most of y** Windows into the Sea, which
is a Vast depth under you. However, the Natural or Artificial hollows in this Rock are such
that I am told the sea beats into all the Cellars. In high tides *tis Entirely surrounded with
water, but the precipice by which 'tis divided from the shore is so terrible that this Castle
seemes to me innacessible on all sides at the Lowest water, and was certain when in Repair
a most inexpugnable place to the Instruments of War used in those dayes. They tell you
here that one part of the house and Rock which hung over the sea, being the Kitchin and
part of the Great Hall, fell down during a great Entertainm* into the Sea, and Several
Persons were lost. The only passage into it was by a Bridge over that precipice, of
which there now Remains only one wall to go over by ; but it was too windy weather
when I was there to Venture this Passage without y* help of a Rope stretched across
to hold by. The Court belonging to this house is on the Land, but I could not observe
any remains of Gardens or Grown Trees, nor do I think it possible to have any such in this
bleak situation. From hence 2 hours ^ brings you to Colrain, which is a good, large,
compact, well-built Town, sittuated on the Fine River Bann. It looks like a clean, pretty
Town as you go thro* it, but the Inn in which we Lay was the most drunken, Stinking
Kennel that ever I smelt or saw. About a small mile up the River is the Famous Fishery of
Colrain. This has nothing Extraordinary in its Contrivance, and has been wholly to an
accident that it was ever made. There is here a fall in the River, and a Gentleman in the
neighbourhood having occasion to bring Down some Timber down the River, makes at this
fall Cut of a matter of 10 or 20 foot over, to Let his Timber down. The Cut Remains, and
the Salmons, at those seasons of the year they go up and down the River, finding this the
most Easy passage. Come up and Down in great Shoals, which the Fishermen ol)serving,
built here a Wire Enclosing some 40 foot in Length of this Cut, and with some Fish -boats
that Fish at the River's mouth, takes the vast quantity of Fish that is here taken, which I
think is not owing to any peculiar artifice in the Fishery, but the Love the Fish have to that
water, and the great Quantity of Waters that arc above, the whole River, which is no small
one, much Larger than the Lifiey, from Colrain to the great Lough Neagh, the whole Lough
itself, and several Rivers that run into it. In the high season of the year the Fish pass here
in such Shoals that the whole cut will be sometimes so full the Fish shall force one another
above water. Insomuch that in one day (which the Bspc of Derry has) there have been
taken sometimes to the value of 4(X)'' and we were assured 'tis actually sett for
200* p*" Ann. From a Hill the Road here passes over going to Derry we have a fine
Prospect of the River and Town below the Road, and of a pretty Iniprovem* of one Mr.
Jackson's joyning the Town. This River has between Colrain and the Lough two very
narrow falls, which in Winter do not Discharge near so much water as the Rains make, which
causes the Lough to overflow some 1,000* of Acres. This might be helped, I hear, for 5 or
6,000 pounds, so as to make the River navigable also to the very Lough to boats
of 30 or 40 Ton.

SUNDAY.

From this to near Newtown, which is half-way to Derry, is all a most Excellent, new,
artificially-made Cawsey in dismall, wild, boggy mountains. It runs for Some miles in an
Exact Straight Line, and it makes a pretty figure to see a work so perfectly owing to Art and
Industry in So wild a place. 'Twill cost Ood- We arrived at Newtown Lemnavaddy, where
Mr. Connelly lives, in about 4 hours. Newtown is a very clean, English-like Town, a
Burrough, well planted with English and Scotch Inhabitants. Mr. Connelly is here building
a Park, which will be Extreamly beautifull and well watered by the River that runs thro' the
Town, which Mr. Connelly told me will sometimes swell so as entirely to cover a Bridge
over it in this place, which I could not Esteem Less than 30 foot from the Water. There is
here gathered a kind of black Slate on the Rocks of Magilligan, which they tell me is found
to be an Excellent Medicine in Several disorders. Some other Natural Curiosities are here
talked of, but none very Remarkable. They tell you of Solomon's Porch, which by the
description I could I^arn to be no more than an odd figured Rock on the sea shore ;
of a clock maker in this Countrey that has made several attempts for the Perpetual
Motion ; of Mr. MacSwync's Gun in County Donnegal, which, as I hear, is a hole in the
Cliffs of the Rocks from whence there constantly issues a Considerable noise And wind by the
beating of the waves below. Insomuch as to be able sometimes to return with considerable
violence a Stone when you throw it down into it. They shewed me here some very round
Stones found in great Quantityes in a Hill called Bullet hill, in y* C. Derry. At Mr.
Connellys we stayed all Slonday.

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TUESDAY.

We were Invited to Dine with Major Gen^ Hamilton, who lives at a place called
within 2 miles of Newtown, on the Road to Derry. Mrs. Hamilton here
told me of a very famous Well in Enishowen, in C. Donnegall, which is a Vast Peninsula of
Land between Loughfoile and Swilly, ail belonging to called MallinwelL

Here the sick come from all parts to be cured by going into it, yet has the Waters of it no
particular virtue, for it seems to be only a hollow in a Rock where one may sit and Let the
Waves beat clear over you. However, the Coldness of the water has surely had good effects.
She told me that she had been in*t several times, but has not found much benefit. From hence,
we went, after Dinner, thro' a good, pleasant countrey, and a small village called Muff, to
Derry. Almost all the way from Colrain to Deny you travell on the Land belonging to the
Corporations of London, to whom it was given by Patent for planting Colonyes and building
these two Towns. From Newtown you have the great Bay called Lough Foile to the Right;
and here, as we travelled, it being Low Water, we saw the great shell Banks which last for
6 or 8 mile here, and are in no likelyhood of being Exhausted, tho' the Boats are continually
at work to carry them away for Manure. This being almost the only Manure used within 30
mile from Scotland, they would willingly give a Boat of Coal for as much Shells, but these
are more valuable.

WEDNESDAY.

Derry is situated of a steep hill formed by a Turn in the River Foile, which half
surrounds it, and washes the suburbs for a great way ; it is here so great a River that they
have not yet made a Bridge over it.

It so [happens] that there is no getting into the place from Colrain but by Boat, of
wch there are one or two constantly in use. However, the Town spreads, so that there are a
few good houses got on Colrain side the River.

Derry is a good, Large, Compact, well-built Town. The old houses have Suflfered much
by the Siege of it, as well as y«-' Inhabitants by the Famine caused there. Yet I am assured,
by Persons then in the Town, that this much talked of Siege ammounted to no more than a
firm blockade. The Irish army Lay Incamped on opposite Hills at one side, while a Boom
stretched across the River hindred help from abroad. Neither do I hear that [there] were ever
any regular aproaches made but once, when they took a Small height, which indeed commands
the Town at the side called Wind Mill hill ; and even this they had not in possession, but
were repulsed in 6 hours' time. However, the Artificial strength of this place is so litle, the
Wall and Ditch so old and out of repair, and so ill provided with Artillery, rather in a worse
condition than Galway or Lymerick, that I could scarce believe any Army could appear
before it without reducing it. As to y« Famine, upon enquiry they tell me that there were
Indeed no provisions to be bought or gotten in the Town for a Considerable time, so that all
the Strangers who had come in to take Sanctuary there, were reduced to miserable difiiculties ;
but the settled people of the Town, who foresaw things, and had opportunities of Laying
Stores in beforehand, were in a much more Easy Condition. The compactness of this Town
and Colrain I take to be owing to their having been built at once by the Londoners.
They have a handsome, well-adorned Cathedral Church here, built on the Ruins of their
old Cittadel ; a good, handsome Town House, built by King William and Queen Mary ;
and also a handsome Large Free School, with a good house for the Master, and a Large
Chamber above for a Library. This is now building ; when Finished, the Books will be
placed in't, which are a Collection of Divinity and Cannon Law Books, with some History,
given by Wm., Late Lord Bpe. of Derry, now Bpe. of Dublin. The Houses are many of
them good, new-built houses. Since the Siege, however, it does not seem to be a place of
much business, Riches, or Trade. Severall of the Inhabitants have several litle pretty
Improvements near the Town, particularly the Dean of Derry. Dean Bolton shewed me a
place of his called , about two miles from Town, w<=** is pretty enough, and

lyes halfway to Culmore Fort, which we went to view, or rather its Ruins, being entirely
rased ; in the Rubbish there are yet two or three pieces of Cannon. This Fort stood on
the Banks of the River, nearer the sea than Derry, at a narrow part, so as to command
the Passage. The Boome was stretched very near this place, nearer the Town, under the
Cannon of the Fort ; however, they found means to break thro* it, and thereby Relieved
the besieged. We Lay in Derry at Mr. Norman's, an Ingenious man. An Alderman of the
Town, and were Civilly Entertained at the Bpe.'s and Dean's. We Stayed here till
Thursday.

THURSDAY.

After Dinner we went along the Fine River Foile, thro' an open sort of Countrey, for
about 4 hours, and arrived at LifTard, which is a very nasty, ugly Town, the County Town of
Donnegall. Across the River lyes Strabane, w*^'* is Somewhat better Town in Tyrone,
belonging to L"^ Abercorn, who has here something of the Linnen Manufacture.

iSo Old Belfast.

FRIDAY.

We left Slraliane ; two hours brooght us la Newtowr
ing to L'' M' Joy ; two more, Ihro" a very woody Countrey, t . „ ,
ordinary Town For the County Town of Tyrone. From hence, Ihro' a wild Oauntrey
enough, to Clogher. Here we lay at the lip's house, Iho' he was ahrosd. This is a
Burrough, hut a most miserable one, having not above three oi four houses in it, and not
even the remains of any one, tho' 'tiii certainly a very inlient See.

SATURDAY.

Left Clogher, and came in about four or tive hours by a Short way thro' the miserablest
wild uniultivaled mountains that can be seen to Monaghan, which is a very pretty, thriving
Village — a great many new and handsome houses. S' Alexander Cairns, to whom the
Town and atljoyning Estate belongs, has a very pretty Improvement making near the Town.
Round Monaghan is a very pleasant Improved well Inclosed Countrey. From hence we
went to Casljeblaney, which is a Small Villai;e and Seat belonging to the Lord Blnney, in a
pleasant woody Situation near a fitie I.ough, Here we lay at a Tolerable Inn. From

SUNDAY,

Thro' Ardee to Knouth, and from thence,

TUESDAY,

HOME.

Island Magee Witches, 171a 161

Depoditions in tbe case of tbe ^^Ian^ fl>agee

Mitcbes, 1710.

COUNTY ANTRIM.

The Examination op John Smith, op Lairne, in y^ s° County, taken at

Carrickfergus, 21 March, 1710,

Who, beinf; duly Sworn and Examined. Saith that Mrs. Maiy Dunbar, who has for this Long time
been in a most unusual manner tormented and afflicted (as shee Saith, and as by all that see her do
verily believe) by witches and Witchcraft, having since the Confinement of Jannet Liston. Janett
Meane. and Jane Miller, whom she affirms to be her Tormentors, declared that she was troubled
only with one young woman, whom the aforesaid women, when about her And tormenting her,
did call Mrs. Ann, but that the said young woman told her that she should never be discovered
by her name as the rest were, shee, the Said Mary Dunbar, having given Exact marks and
D^cription of one Margret Mitchell, whom she, this Ex< doth verily believe, the Said Mary
never had seen before the Said Marg< Mitchell was brought to her, and that the Said Mary
assured this Ex< and others that the Said Marg^ was the young woman that did Torment and
afflict her. And that she never saw her before but when she was tormenting her ; and that after
the Said Marget was set at Liberty, the Said Mary fell into a most violent fit, in which the Said
Ex* heard her say — " For Christ Sake, Let me alone, and I won't discover you." And after being
Recovered out of the Said Fitt, was asked to whom she spoke. The Said Mary told them that
the Said Marg^ Mitchell was then afflicting her, and told her she would have this Exam^ James
Blithe's Picture made & roast it like a Lark, and that they should not Catch her, for she wou'd
turn herself into a Hare, and further Saith that the Said Mary did remit Several Pins, buttons,
and horse Hair, and further Said not.

The Examination op Mary Dunbar, taken i2TH March, 1710,

\\^o, being duly Sworn and Examined. Saith that during these Severall weeks she has been in a
most grievous and violent manner tormented and afflicted with Witches ; that Several whom she
never had known, or to her knowledge seen before, did frequently appear to her (tho' invisible to
her keepers and attenders), who make her fall very often into fainting and tormenting fitts, take the
Power of Tongue from her. and afflicts her to that Degree that she often thinks she is pierced to
the heart, and that her breasts are cut off; that she heard the Said women (when about her)
name one another, and that called one Jannet Liston, another Eliz. Cellor, another Kate
McCamont, another Jannet Carson, another Jannet Mean, another Latimore, and another Mrs.
Anne, and the Said Jannet Liston. Eliz. Cellar, Kate McCamont, and Jannet Carson being
brought to her, att their first appearance she knew them to be four of her Tormentors, and that
after they were taken into Custody the aforesaid Latimore and Mean did very much Torment her,
especially when Mr. Sinclare, the Dissenting Minister, was praying with and for her, and told her
they would hinder her of hearing his prayers ; but if she would do as they would have her, she
soon would be well, and that Jannet latimore and Jannet Mean being brought to her, she likewise
knew them to be other two of her Tormentors, and that since the confinement of the said Jannet
I^iston, Eliz. Cellar, Kate McCamont, Jannet Carson. Jannet Mean, and Jannet Latimor, none of
them has troubled her, neither has been so much tormented as when they were at Liberty, and
that there do now only two appear to her (viz^-), the aforesaid Mrs. Ann, as they called her, and
another woman, blind of an eye, who told her when Mr. Robb, the curate, was going to pray
with and for her, that she should be little the better for his prayers, for they would hinder her
from hearing them, which they accordingly did.

The Examination op John Smith, taken 14TH March, 1710

Who, being duly Sworn and Examined, saith that, upon the within-mentioned Mary Dunbar
giving an acco^ that there was a woman blind of an eye that did torment her, three severall
women blind of an eye were brought to her, but she, the Said Mary, declared they never troubled
her. and that she had nothing to say against th«m or Lay to their Charge ; and one Jane Miller,
of Carrickfergus. who is blind of an eye, being likewise sent for to come to the Said Mary, that as
soon as she drew ni^h the house where the Said Mary was (the Said Mary did not know of her
coming), she became very much afraid, faintish. and Sweat, and as soon as shee came into the
Roome where the Said Mary lay, she, the Said Mary, fell into Such a violent fitt of pains that three
men were Scarce able to hold her^ryed out, " For Christ's Sake, take the Devil out of the Room ; "
and being asked. Said the blind woman, meaning the Jane Miller, for she was the woman that did
Torment her, and shee had seen her too often in her fitts, and the Said Miller being taken from
the House, the Said Mary came to her Ri^ht Senses, and Declared that the Said Jane Miller was
the woman blind of an eye that did afflict her, tho' she did not know her name, nor never had
seen her before, but when in her fitts aforesaid, and the Said Jane Miller bein|f brought into her
again, shee assured them that shee was the woman that did afflict her, and being brought in the
third time into the Roome unknown and unseen to the Said Mary, as he does verily believe, the
Said Mary fell into her violent fitts, and begged of the People to take her, the Said Jane Miller,
out of the Room.

1 62 Old Belfast.

Bryce Blan, Constable, Deposeth that after the said Jane Miller was delivered to him and
brought from the said House, he privately, and unknown to the Said Mary, brought her into the
Room where she was again, and before the Said Mary saw her. shee fell very ill in violent fitts,
and prayed them to take the Devil out of the Roome.

The Examination of H. Wilson (Island Magee). taken ioth March, 17x0,

Who, being duly Sworn and Examined, saith that on the 6th Instant he was in the house of Ja.
Haltridge, in the Said Island, Gent, and Saw Mary Dunbar in a very ill condition, being, as is
supposed, tormented with witches, and one Jannet Latimore, uho being often Said by the person
grieved to be one of her Tormentors, tho' she never had seen her in her life, but when shee
appeared, as she Said, to her in her affliction, came near the House, became very uneasie and
faintish, and much disordered, and became worse and worse, notwithstanding the b^aid Mary
Dunbar, nor none of her keepers or attendants knew ot the Said Latimer's coming or being there,
and being desired by bome there in the House to go in and see the Said Mary, which she did,
amongst several others, and when she appeared to her, the Said Mary fell into Desperate violent
fitts, and when she got the Liberty of her Tongue (which was often taken from her;. Said that
woman Latimore was one of her Tormentors, and that she knew her face full well, tho' shee had
never Seen her before, but in her tormented fitts appeared to her. And further saith that one
Jannet Mean, wife to one Andrew ffergusson, near Billycarry, in the Said County, was brought by
a Warrant, but privately and unknown to y^ Said Mary Dunt^, and among very many more came to
see her, and at her first appearance Shee. the said Mary, became as before, in her most desperate
fitts, and both the Said Mean and Latimore being taken apart from the said Haltridge's house to
another house, to be Exam^ : that after Examination the Said Mean's Husband would not be
Satisfied that the sick person would anyway alter at the appearance of his wife. It was agreed
that shee Should appear to the Sick person again, and that as Soon as she entred the Roome
Doore where the Said Mary lay, she became distracted, tho' Sober ere her entrance ; and further
saith that y^ said Mary is most tormented when prayed with or for. Save when they personally
appear to her, and she Saith that since the Confinement of Jannet Liston and her Daughter Cat:
McCamont and Jannet Carson, none appeared to her but the Said Jannet Mean and Jannet
Latimore, and appears most to her when prayed for as aforesaid, the Said Mary being, when out
of her fitts. very sensible.

The Examination of Charles Lennan, Gent., taken y^ ioth of March, 1710.

Who, being Duly Sworn and Examined. Saith that the 5th and 6th Instant he was in the House
of James Haltridge. of Island Magee. Gent., where lies in a most Desperate Condition Mary
Dunbar, of or about the age of 17 or 18 years, being, as Concluded by all that See her. tormented
with Witches and Witchcraft, and his Examination agrecth word for word with the ioth in
Examination, and further Saith that when Mr. Sinclare. the Minister, was praying with the said
Mary Dunbar, that the Said Mary Said Jennet Latimore and Jannet Mean told her that they
would hinder her of hearing his prayers ; but both Said to her if she would do as they would have
her to do, she would soon be well. The Ext. further Saith that when the Said Mary was taken or
helped out of the Roome she lay in that she fell as dead on the Threshold, and at her Desire the
Threshold and floor about was dug up. And in so doing there was a strong Smell as (as was
Concluded) of Brimstone, and when done the Said Mary went out of yc Said Roome without any
trouble, and in Some hours after, when Mr. Sinclare prayed with her, shee fell into violent fitts,
and said she Saw the Said Mean and Latimore, who ^^aid to her that shee should not get so well
out of the Door again, whereupon it was agreed that she should try; accordingly she did, and
fell into more violent fitts than before, both at her going out and Returning to the Said Roome.

The Examination of Wm. Fenton, of Island Magee, 30 of March, 1710,

Who, being duly Sworn and Examined, Saith that for sometime past the House of James
Haltridge, of Island Magee aforesaid, hath been haunted with Evil Spirits (as he is credibly
Informed), and that Mary Dunbar, being now in the Said house, is in great Disorder, and very
much tormented both day and night by Witches ; And by the description the said Mary Dunbar
gave this Ex»- and others of the Witches, they did verily believe that Jannet Liston and Eliz.
Cellar were persons Guilty of the Same, upon which, on Friday Last, they Sent for the Said
persons, and when the said Jannet Liston and Eliz. Cellar came into the Roome where y« Said
Mary Dunbar was. Shee the Said Mary fell into a violent fitt of Pains, and Said that as Soon as
she Saw them she was Stung to y« heart, and declared that the Said Jannet and Elizabeth were
Devils, and continually with Several other women about her bed troubling her, and.further Saith
that there were a ^at manv more of other women present when the Said Mary Challenged the
Said Jannet and Elizabeth, whom she never Saw in her Lifetime before her trouble aforesaid.

John Willson, of Island Magee aforesaid,
agreeth with the above, word for word.

James Blyth, of Bank, in the County of Antrim,

Who, being duely Sworn and Exam^- agreeth Verbatim with the aforesaid Exam"*-, and further
Saith that the Said Mary Dunbar Said she heard her Tormentors name one Katty among them,
upon which one Katherine McCamont was sent for ; and as Soon as She came into Vie Said

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163

Harjr's Roome, the Said Mary Dunbar fell into such violent fiti of pains that tbree persons were
nol able lo bold ber, and that the Said Mary Dunbar Declared ihni Ihe Said Kalberine wai one oT
her tormentors, and funher Saiih that as goon u the Said Kalberine entered tbe House, Iho'
unseen to tbc Said Mazy, her pains Seized on her with a great Sweat,

James Hill Deposeth that the first Inslanl, he being in Ihe House ol Wm. Cellar or Island
Magee. one MaryTwmain (Wc) came into the Said House and called out Jannel Uston to speak lo
her. and that oFier the Said Janivel came in again sbee fell a trembling, and lold this Depon< that
the Said Mary had been desiring her to go lo Mr. Hallridge to see Mary Dunbar, but declared
she would nol gc« for all Island Magee, eieept Mr. Sinelare wou'd come for her (and Said) — If the
plague of God was on her. the Said Mary Dunbar, y' Plague of God be oo them altogether ; the
Devil be with Ihem. if he was among them. If God had taken her health from her, God give her
b^lh. If the Devil had taken it from her. the E>evil give her it. And then said — O, misbelieving
ones, eating and drinking Damnation to themselves, Crucifvinj Christ afresh, and taking alt out
of the hands of the Devil. Cap/ el Jurat V Die Marfij. 1710.

COUNTY ANTRIM.
The Examination of Huch Donaldson op Isi.ako Magee, ih the Said Cou.'nv,

TAKEN THE STH MARCH. I7IO,
Who, being duly Sworn and Examined, Saith thai the aBlh of February, be being in the bouse of
James Hattridge of Island Magee afores'i, he Saw Mrs. Mnry Dunbar afflicted in an unusual
manner, falling into lilts as if she had been dead, and did nol know what any about her swd, in
one of which fills he heard her say So and So after she was recovered, and very Sensible was asked
what it was She Said in the Said 6lt. sbee answered, there was a woman came lo tbe bed tide,
and asked her, Molly Dunbar, how do you do, and the Said Mary, giving the marks of one
Jannet Liston, whom sbee never bad seen in her life, as sbee said when out of her fills, upon wbich
the Said Liston was sent for, and at her approach the Said Mary affii " ■--■ -' "

id felt in

-e able

rment during the Said Li
hold her. She likewise,
and thai they called

of It

Jannet Mean, and another McAtexander, all who direatned to kill ber if

iboad in Ihe Roome. so that Scarce two or
ether fits, said shee heard her Tormenton
Carson, another Katly. anotlier
■■--■'-'--■-" ■'-nr names, upon

DdaA soon oA all eeappeflred,
S the abode of one Elii: Cel

Cellar.

164 Old Belfast.

which the Said JanelCarSin was Sent for about the 6rsl Inslanl, anilaj

Said Mary feil into a great agony during her sfay, a^

whom she had given a Description of, and declared to be one o? her Tonuenlors, and Ibat the

aforesaid Mary Dunbar declared she never Saw any of the aforesaid women before het afRiction

aforesaid, and further Saith that about ihitty other women were Severally brought into ibe Rooinc

where she was, and that she never ivas disturbed in ibe Least during ibeir Continuance, and Said

they were none of her atfiiclors, still averring that the aforesaid women were her lonuenlonh

COUNTY ANTRIM.

The Exauination op Jaues Haltridce, of Island Macgb. Gicnt.i a4TH Mab., 1710,
V/bo, being duly Sworn and Examined, Saith that his house, situate in Island Magee aforesaid,
which for Ibis considerable lime past has been haunted with Evil Spirits and Witches, and in
which house one Mrs. Mary Dunbar (who is now removed from them to hank in the said Counly)
was atnicted and tormented by witches, as she Saith. whom she discovered by giving Exact nurks
and account of the most of Ihdr names, iho' she never bad Seen of Ibem in her life befon [as
she declares) but when hy them tormented: since y* Confinement of Margt. Mitchell, whom tbe
Said Mary affirm 10 be the only one that did afflict her since the Confinement or Jannet Liston.
Elii. Cellar. Kate McCamonl, Jannel Carson, Jannet Mean. Jannet Latimore. and Jane Milla-,
who were all sent to and still do Remain in GaoU, upon her discovering them as aforesaid to be
her tormentors, hatb never been troubled or molested in the Least, and that the Said Mary Dunbar
told this Eiami- that Since the Confinement of the Said Margaret Mitchell, whome slie aasuml
him that she was very Certain was her only lormenlot after the Confinement of y aforeaaid
persons, she the said Mary has not been tormented or afflicted, and that none of them baM
appeared to her, but she has been very easie ever Since, S.ive Some things she thought was in hW
Siomack. which she would be glad to Vomil. and fiinher Saith not

die AtiKa/ue Supradict.

EDWARD CLEMENTS, Copia Vera.

fPinitrlim MSS.J

(MS. I.i-j. T.C.D.J

Correspondence of Robert Greene, 1718 to 1726. 165

fiytracts from (torrespon^ence of l?obert (BrecnCt
agent of tbe Donegall fistates, from 1718 to 1726.

Bel/ast,ffeb,s^ 172s.
T>^' Sir,

Yours the 27^^ Should have been answerd before had I not expected considerable
Sums from two Gent' both Wilsons, one our late SherrifF, and other Clerk of the Crown and
peace, who, instead of paying, unexpectedly hurry'd to Dublin without paying what they
promissed. Both are expected here by the end of the next week I would more willingly
pay than you receive were itt in my power. I shall not forgett your letter till y« money is
paid. So soon as these Gentlemen return you shall hear, and I hope effectually.

S' your friend and humble servt.,

To mr. Thomas Gill, att the RoB. Greene.

Custom-house, Dublin.

(Earl of Barrymore.) April sf^ 1726.

My Lord,

I am told its believed by Phisicians and others that D' Macartney our
Sovereign cannot live till midsummer. If your Lordship thinks fitt a Leett may be sent
worded to this purpose : — Whereas I.Arthur Earle of Donegall, Lord of the Castle of Belfast,
am informed that James Macartney, Y.s^* sovereign of the Corporation of Belfast afores*** is
very ill, and that its thought he is not likely to live till midsummer, I the s^ . . . . E^le of

Donegall, do in case of his Death nominate three Burghesses, one of which to

be chosen to supply the s^ sovereign's place in case he shall happen to dye, and this
nomination is given under my hand & scale in april,i726. Such a Leett may be needfull, and
one for midsummer Election if he so long live, but its thought he cannot live till the end of
this month. I hear mr. Banks began his Journey to my Lady Donegall & mr. Chichester on
tuesday last, and that he purposes to see y' Ldship. I long to hear that y® partys concerned
are agreed to gett an act for raising rents & money by setting leases. Nothing can tend •
more for y« benefitt of my Lord & his family in this town. Then trade will begin lo
increase & the town will flourish. I desire to know if y** Lordship approves of erecting a
Woollen Manufacture which will be of great advantage & profitt to this town & Country as I
can easily demonstrate. I beg your Lordship's answer, and am, &c. ,

R. G.

(Earl of Barrymore.) Belfast^ aprili theg^^ 1726,

My Lord,

By severall letters I have told your Lordship that our Sovereign's life is not
like to last long ; he is daily prayed for, and grows very weak. Since my last a lease
acquir'd by the Death of one ashmore, the former rent and Duty was i" 19* 6*** it will now
sett for 5^' by which there will be an increase rent of 3" per annum. This day I rec* a
letter from Doctor Scot of y« 2*' instant, directing me to send him a bill for 32o'* English for
my Lord's use against the first of May, which will be alwve 350^* and perhaps near 360" of
Belfast money. Your Lordship's orders in this and all other affairs is numbly desired
by, &c.,

Robert Greene.

(Earl of Barrymore.) Belfast, april i&'^ 1726,

My Lord,

Our late Sovereign was buried last night. His Death and the discontinuance of
my Lord's Courts by nir. Banks being in England causes a great cr^ amon^t the people.
My Lord is like to loose above 60^* by the want of Surveyors to require the six days* labour.
Mock Courts are kept ; one was held yesterday, and Warrants dated the l$^^* signed Tho:
Banks, are issued to Summon tenants, under tenants, and servants to a Court leet to collect
head Sloney, tho' very illegall. , . . &c., R. G.

Old Belfast.

BtlfasI, aprill aj* tjs6.

(Earl of Banrymore.)
Hy Lord,

Yeslerday, Iho' Sunday, mr. Skeffington, Biigadier Price, our Coll' mr. Byrt, &
mr. Clugston mett here, and, as I am told, have clecled mr. Rolit, ByrI sovereign for y* Re-
mainder of the yenr. Its though', notwithstanding the agieemt. by which it is mr. Clugslon's
turn, that on midsummer day Ihey purpose to choose him again for y' next year. He, as its
said, hopes to be town Clark, which, as I take itt, islo beOaik lo himself. Having written
many Letters without one word in answer, till Honour'd with a few lines, have only lo add
Ihall am, aic. R. G.

(Earl of Barrvmore.) Belfast, May 7'* /jad.

My Lord,

I have y« Hon' of your Lordship's Ihe aS''' past, and ohserved y' Commaod*
to y' Burgesses. The Coll' seems well satisfied, and assures me Clugston shall be favoured
& indulged Ly him to y° utmost of his power, but thinks its advisable to defer his election till
he hath apply 'd to y* Com" for their consent, and y° rather because heie is no Constable to
swear him. He believes y< Cum" will refer hii request to him as Coll' and Siays he will
report in his favour. Mr. Clugston is most thankiull to y' Lordship, and seems highly
delighted to think of his approaching Hon'- All he wants is a book lo teach him the law,
resolving to read much, as he hears our late Sovereign did, but he understood not what he
read, and I believe mr. Clugslon's underslanding will be abundantly less. Mr. Byrt is much
transported to find he is like lo be town Qark, tho' if possible would have had both, and
made some most unaccountable and presumptuoui steps to procure the Sovereignity.
Nothing y' y' lordship is pleased to direct will meet with the least opposition ; at present
all needllill is to lake care for y' future. The Coll' hinted to me that mr. Isaac m'CartQcy
would qaallify if Elected, and said the late Sovereign (old him so. Cap' m'Cullough
formerly oiler d here several) substantial shopkeepers that will, who incline to come over to
our church, where Ihey most fiequenlly come. The place may lye vacant till y' Lordship's
on the Spott. We want some p'sona quallifyd for y" Magistracy after Clu^ton's year's
ended. Here is nobody in this town hut mr. Byrt, who by being town Clark will be dis-
quallilied. This y' Lordship will consider, and also that encuuragements are needfull lo
some in Ihe town when sevcrall arc going off. . , . &.Q. R. G.

Correspondence of Robert Greene, 1718 to 1726. 167

Belfast^ May t/*^ 1726,
Hon" Sir,

The Enclosed Acco"* given by mr. Macartney I woud have brought,
having long purposed to wait on my Lord y' Brother and you, had I been able. I have a
letter from my Lord Barrymore to the same purpose, but a very ill state of health which I
ntt present labour under hath long confined me at home, so as to prevent any more than
humble requests that I might l)e excused, and earnestly desire by all opportunity that my
humblest services might be acceptable, with assurance that I shall take pleasure in serving
my Lord, Lady, you, or any of your family.

I desire your friendship therein, and that you may be pleased to Hon' me with a visit
when you come next here, tho' health should not permitt me to perform my Duty or
pursue my inclination. In so doing you will most sensibly oblige, &c. , R. G.

To the Hon^'e John Skeffington, Esq'-
att Antrim.

Belfast, May //* 1726.
My Lord,

I writt to mr. Skeffington, who purposes to be here on tuesday, to elect mr.
Clugston. His Election was so long deferred that he might have time to apply to y" Com" for
lycence to serve, which I hope he hath gott, tho* I have not seen him these three days past.
One Watt, a Master of a ship, is recommended by mr. Mussenden, one of our considerable
traders, as an honest man of substance. He is master of one of their ships who hath gained
and saved money, and offers 37" per ann. for y* 90 acres that became out of lease by the
death of Robinson, besides receivers' fees and Dutys, which will be £2 4 : — more he
designed to send his proposall, but being Ord** by his owners to go for a load Salt, he
purposes to wait on y^ Lordship w"* his proposall as afores^* which I thought fitt to be laid
before you by him who is with y* greatest Duly and respect, &c., R. G.

To Earl of Barrymore, Rocksavage.

(Earl of Barrymore.) Belfast , May y 21^* 1726,

My Lord,

On Tuesday last Mr. Clugston was Elected, but cannot Act till some body is
Impowered to swear him. Mr. Skeffington did not come to Elect, tho' y® Collector and I
writt to him by an express y* that I sent. On Thursday night Mr. Jones — who was
recommended for a Burgesse — drank hard at Hillsborough, and Rideing home his horse threw
him. It was thought he was dead, but he speaks this day and feels pain, w*^'* gives some
hopes of his recovery, tho* 'tis fear'd he cannot live. The post of a line is much desired
by, &c.,

R. G.

(Earl of Barrymore.) Belfast, May the 2j^ 1726,

My Lord,

The Coll' was with me yesterday desiring to lett y' Lordship know that
he purposes to begin his Journey to Wexford Wells on Monday next, and that if mr.
Clugston be not Swore before, this town will then have neither Sovereign or Justice to keep
peace, adjust differences, or to Settle Army's Quarters. Here is a great cry about itt
amongst people of all Ranks in the town. mr. Seymour Sends two Pacquetts, and begs
your Lordship's Speedy answer, as doth, &c.,

R. G.

I desire directions about the Hawks ; they are expensive and very troublesome.

Belfast, May 28*^ 1726,
My Lord,

The Coll' l)egins his Journey to Wexford on tuesday. He desired me to lett
your Lordship know that for want of Manor or Town Court the poor people Suffer much.

1 68 Old Belfast.

and pezt Outcrys are daily heard. He hath been told mr. Chichester is going to be
Blamed, and that nir. Banks Stays to attend the wedding. When the Coll' is gone, for
want of a Sovereign or some Justice of the peace in this Town, the Common people
will grow very audacious and Licentious, which was thought needfuU to be laid before
y' Lordship by, &c.,

R. G.
I have not been Hon** with a line from y' Lordship since 28*** April

(Earl of Barrymore.) Belfast^ Jwie 11^ 1726,

My Lord,

On Monday last mr. Williams and mr. Banks came to me, and, as mr.
Williams said, by your Lordship's order, to examine my Acco'^, take up my Vouchers, and to
give me a discharge for the Same, with an attested Coppy of y' Lordship's order by which
he acted, and that mr. Banks was directed his rent Roll to compare with and rectifie mine.
After which he wanted a bill of 50" for his last half-year's salary , and for 37" 7* i J<* costs to mr.
Smith, attorney, which bill of 37" 7* ij^ when he had got with a coppy of my Acco"* and
book of receipts for Rent & Heriots, &c. , he had no (more business with nor any) Receipt for
me ; but going of I askt if there were any grounds for a report that mr. Banks foi his
Insolence was to be sole agent & Seneschall. . He said he believed itt would be so, y* he
had a power to examine & discharge my Acco"** I told him he ought to . have show'd it,
and to have proceeded thereon ; that I was ready to acco* with any p'son empowered to
receive my Vouchers and discharge them. On the contrary, mr. Banks would have me
take his and discharge him. I am much surprised at what's done, but find great Satisfaction
in knowing I have acted friendly. Justly, and very successfully for y« Service of my Lord
Donegall and his family, and that I have deserved much better treatment, which y' Lord-
ship will allow when you are pleased to consider it, &c. ,

R. G.

Belfast^ Jum 2^*^ 1726.
My Lord,

I am Hon** with your Lordship's, in answer to which the Hawks have been
taken care of, and are ready to be deliv<* as y' Lordship shall direct. They have been
troublesome to me, who have no convenience for them, and some charge. I humbly desire
y' you may be pleased to order me what due out of the Isle Magee & Maghremorne at all
S^ last, I having paid the same. In so doing you will much oblige, &c. ,

R, G.
To Lord Hilsborough.

Belfast, Sept, 17'^ 1726,
D» Sir,

I am favoured with y'* by this post, and will observe directions. My leggs are
yett inflamed, and the Swelling but little abated ; the pain in my groin is quite gone. I breath
as well if nott better than when you were here, and am no worse if not better in health, but
daily perplexed with vexatious proceedings promoted by those who would destroy me if in
their power. My most humble service to Doctor Worth ; we were once intimate, but I
thought he had forgott me. I wish him long life with good health, and the like to
Docf^ Robinson, to whom pray make my humblest Service acceptable. You said you had
fifty pounds by you ; if so, pray pay it forthwith to mr. Hugh Henry on my Ace*- I will
repay you on demand with legall interest. I am pincht at present, and shall be for about
two months, therefore your assistance now will much oblige,

D-^ Will,

V affectionate Uncle,

R. G.

My wife joynes with me in affectionate Services to you and y"^ Spouse, and in wishes
that y' wife, you, and y' Children may long live in health & be most happy. There is
a Carrier of this town now in pill lane ; piay, by him send me some lemons and Civill
orranges.

To mr. William Greene, Surgeon, at y* J

sign Alembeck, on Mercht* Key, Dublin.

Extracts from Letters of Mrs. M. M'Tier.

Brtracts from letters o( fIDrs. fID. (ID'iticr, of
ffielfast, to ber brother, ©r. IJnilUam Urcnnan,
between 1776»84.

L'R gaiety here continue

Last Friday we had a

I elegant ball at

night before, there vios one „ _

^£500 in the Belfast scheme : it has been ill-managed, by which n gi'eat
number of tickets remained unsold. Many were subscribed lo. and
the rest were required by the scheme, which has gained near iS
hundred pounds already.

" The triumph of ibe few and fears of many begin to decline id
t^ard 10 the victories in Americn — from Dublin we henr that there
is tittle credit given in the various accounts of Washington's defea,t.
Our winlersets out rather gayer than usual ; we havealready had three
Balls — one, as a house-warming, at Dr. Appesley'si another at Captain
Stewart's: and a third at Miss Turnly's, by the Wallaces. The olTicers of ibe^n/.(iu<t being
here, occasioned their following each other so quickly. We had also a very grand one at Ibe
iafirmary. the Only one 1 partook of, la the County of Down (here ii a party formed called a.
C6terie. occasioned by Mrs. Hunter of Pine Hill giving a dinner and a ball on her son's being of
age ; there was at it above forty people of that neighbourhood, and they found it so agreeable
that they agreed it should be kept up at each other's houses thro' the winter; and tut week
Rainey ilaxwell gave the second, but as it was the same night as Hill W.'s, Rainey hod the
fewest tnen. Dr. Ross has at length resigned in favour of Dr. Appesley, and quit the st^ge with
decency and fortitude.

" Do you remember Val Pierce in this town ? He stayed at Mr. Harrison's, and went to
America some lime ago. He sold nil the goods he had upon Commission, remitted the money,
and immediately joined the Provincials. Young Brislow. who was with General Burgoii

lost his all, writes to his br— "— ' ■'-—•--•—-■ • j -' v.- -<j <-^— j n --^ ..._. 1

then a Major of Brigade.

:r here that he had heard of his old trie

I70 Old Belfast.

"Our volunteer companys make a good figure. Captain Banks' is the most numerous, and
he is fond of showing them in marching to Church or Meeting, a parade declined by the others.
They, however, I am told, are to fire on Sunday next. Their regimentals are blue, white waist-
coats and breeches, and blue cord-laced hats, and it is thought pretty, etc. As J. Gregg resigned
when he went to America, there was another Officer to be balloted for his place, and Sam was
chosen — a very inconvenient and expensive honor. Rowley wrote from Dublin last post begging
leave to join them. Halliday was so much mortified at not being chosen their Captain that he
could not disguise it. He had been ist Lieutenant in the old Belfast Company, a circumstance
that was not known by T. Holmes and Sam, who were really the persons who got Saunders
appointed, from their opinion of his being a man of knowledge and bravery. Halliday attacked
Sam about their choice with great warmth, and was backed by Bamber and all their Patriotism.
exclaiming against the appearance of such a wonder as two Vol. Companys in Belfast, and both
tory officers. Much was said on both sides.

" Lord Donegall was here : the ladies he paid most attention to were Mrs. Brown and Mrs.
Lyon.

*• In Belfast we, nor indeed anyone, can now live on a small fortune but in an obscure and,
what is worse, a vulgar manner, for a small, genteel house in a tolerable situation is not to be
got at any moderate rent, and it is crowded with rich upstarts who, skipping from the counter to
their carriage, run one down with force of wealth which sanctions ignorance and vulgarity, and
now gives them a lead and fashion who, a few years since, w^ have shrunk with awe from the
notice of what is called good company.

"Don't you wish to see Miss Brunton? She is very pleasing. I went in to her Juliet, and
think she was really Shakspear's ; but I am sick of Tragedy, for 1 have seen it so long that 1
know each Ha ! and Oh ! by heart.

•• A Nabob of the name of Rankin, son to the dissenting minister, has bought Montgomery's
estate near us (Cabin Hill), and builds a great house immediately, jemmy Crawford is on his
return with £fio,ooo. Hull is making a great figure at Drumbo. The Bishop of Down lives
elegantly at Purdysburn. Lord Dungannon is expected to settle at Belvoir, and from all parts
people are flocking to Belfast.

" The entertainment to the Ld. Lieutenant was most elegant, and conducted with decorum
and taste, so as to be much noticed and spoke of by all the noblemen there. Mr. Bristow was
determined to please all. He drew up an address for that purpose — merely civil, fixed his toasts,
&c. By accident he had omitted to drink Ld. Rawdon, and a note being sent to him from the
fool of the table reminding him of it, either a wish to atone for the neglect, or the truth being
without caution to his tongue, he drank Rawdon's health and the glorious Camden. This really
did receive three cheers. Conscience or recollection struck the company.

"Not but his Lordship, perceiving the danger he was in from the imprudence of the task,
and having got the better of a panic which he acknowledged afterwards he felt, he thanked the
company, and told them the success of that day was owing to the Harp on his standard and the
Irishmen who followed it.

*• He supped at Mr. Greg's. Mentioned the Toast, and his distress upon it, from his know-
ledge of the sentiments of the Belfast people, for which he said he honored them. Mentioned his
military enthusiasm being over, and that the war with America was sufficient to affect it ; his
desire of bein^ active, and for the future hoped it would be in the Cabinet, not in the field, but
despaired of it while Mr. Pitt was Minister, as with a man of his duplicity he could never act.

"At Hillsborough Corporation dinner the Governor gave ' the Volunteers.' I^. H. cried,
• Fy. fy, fy,' and each time knocked his hand on the table — • Do you know. Sir, there is not a toast
could be more disagreeable to G'ment.' Ward replyed he would apply to Government for infor-
mation, and, announcing the toast to the Lord Lieutenant, drank it in a bumper.

•• I hear there was a meeting called by Bristow last week to propose subscriptions for raising
men for his Majesty's fleet, but M'Cabeand company would not consent. Such men are very
useful, and have ten times the merit of their superiors, who dare only to bluster in the private
circle of their friends. It is not to such, but to men they look down on that Ireland owes her
freedom. I think these sort of expenses ought to be taken in turn, and for this war those who
kept free of Volunteer trouble and expense during the last should now step forward, and either
guard their Coasts or open their purses. I would be invaded, were I an Irish Volunteer, before
I would volunteer it either with money or person for George the 3^-

" The last resolve carried in Belfast is to demolish Bryson's Mecting-House, and build in its
stead a new one on the model of the Church. J. Kennedy's name is down for 20 guineas.

"A large number of the Members of the Constitution Club is just passed to C'fergus in
order to make a figure for Waddel Cunningham. His friends say he has been offered a seat for
Belfast by L<* Donegal if he will give up C'fergus ; but this during his Patriotick hour would
not do.

" Ld. Donegal is expected immediately, and some fields about the poorhouse a few weeks
ago have sold for /lo an acre.

" Belfast has Deen very gay. Col. Lindsay and his Corps gave the most elegant ball and
supper at Sheridan's ever seen in this kingdom. Mrs. Bell Brown gave another last week to 150
people, who all supped in her house. Of this there has been much talk, as it was rather in the
tag-rag style.

" Dr. Haliday dined here on Sunday, and shewed me a letter from Lord Charlemont which
I think you would like, as it seemed warm from the heart of a good old man zealous in his
Country's cause. He tells the Dr. he wishes early to give him an account of his embassy, which

Extracts from Letters of Mrs. M. MTier, 171

has fully answered every purpose he wished from it, and then, I think, uses some words of yours,
that before the independence of Ireland was only in theory, new it's fixed by practise. He raves
like a (over of the Prince, and says he knows not how to quit the theme ; that till he saw him, he
had not an idea of an accomplished prince ; that their reception was far more than cordial, and
that Ireland may rest assured she has bound by the strongest ties of gratitude the accomplished
Prince, who will one day be their King. He asks what the Belfast politics are, laments the fall
of Reviews, but says his friends have acted well in determining to do all they could.

" Lord Dungannon is at Belvoir, living in a princely style, and Ld. and Lady Antrim with
their 3 daughters. The young man, I believe, is very decent, appears unaflected, pleased with
Belfast, and bis Mother and sisters. Walks into lown, and attends the public places. He
presides at the C6terie next night, his choice Mrs. Rankin, who is much the fashion.

" Of your address to Lord Charlemont I never heard but from yourself. Of Dr. Haliday's

Eolitics or any other persons I know little, not having been twice in company since you were
ere. What Sam hears comes to me, and that is all. By this chance I know that Lord
Charlemont wrote to Dr. H. , begging he might use his influence to prevent any Volunteers'
resolutions about political matters, as it was certain their enemies were upon the watch for some
unguarded expressions, which would be eagerly caught on as an excuse for a riot act or some
other mode of destruction. His Lordship, you may believe, did not choose to be mentioned in
this. I believe his motives were good, as his actions have ever been consistent, and all his words
the natural expressions of an honest, aflectionate, and anxious friend to the Volunteers of his
Country.

"There is in this Town at present a violence of business, if I may say so, which I would
think portends something great either in the rise or fall of individuals. Strange it would be in
any other man but W. Cunningham, after all the opposition given to the Bank, as a matter
hurtful to the public, to declare that next New Years day he would open a second in Belfast
This, however, he has announced; speaks with contempt of the management, etc., of the
present, and looks destruction He has avowed T. Campbell as a partner, but none of the rest.
A. Stewart of Newlownards, C«arr, Hull, Rankin are spoke of.

" Sam's opinion is that Belfast does not know its strength and power, and that there is business
for two Banks, founded I suppose upon the Discount Office having discounted ;^25,ooo a-month
even since the Bank opened.

" Websters. Hambers, and Hamills are all going to Belfast to live ; but houses are not to be
got for the half that want them. In the New Street. £\\o is asked as rent.

" Our Linen Hall and New Street is all marked out. and goes back as far as the stone table
in the Castle Garden, and quite across the Mall into the exercising field.

" Belmont is sold, and Will Baieson the purchaser.

** Castle Hill is once more going to verify the country people's observation of being unlucky,
and often changing its inhabitants. Its present one is embarrassed, and is about selling it to
Bunbury, Mr. Isaac's heir.

" Will Bateson keeps Belmont close to himself on his ;^x,6oo.

" Atkins has sent a proposal to Mrs. Siddons oi £\oo for three nights, and Dr. Haliday has
wrote to Mrs. O Neil for her interest.

*• Jemmy Kennedy has taken oar old Rosemary St. habitation, which has been so much im-
proved by the last tenant that it is really a genteel and most convenient habitation.

'• Mrs. Siddons is now here working wonders, and I would really be greatly disappointed if
you do not see her. The effects of her Belvedera have done credit to the feelings of the audience.
No one disappointed, even the old bigots to Mrs Cibber and Garrick. Haliday swelled;
Mattear snivelled ; Major Leslie cryed, and damned the play ; W. Cunningham rubbed his legs
and changed his posture ; a Mrs. Aderton was really taken out in convulsions; and Miss Lewis,
that was now Mrs. Britt, left the house. Many ladies besides these were much affected, tho'
sooner recovered.

" We hear no other subject. Last night in the Unhappy Marriage she is supposed to have
reached the height of human powers.

"She was indeed great, beyond all others I ever beheld. Fair ladies were taken out faint-
ing in the last act. and hardly a man could stand it. Sam cried for half-an-hour after he went to
bed, and many others who withstood it in the House gave up to tears when they went home.

" The Edinburgh strictures are beautiful and just. .As for myself, 1 can wonder, admire, be
chilled, thrilled, &c., &c. , but cannot cry— not that I feel too much for tears, but she does not
melt me ; I believe she is too great. At first I supposed it was my having out-lived these fine
enthusiastic feelings of youth ; but all ages, all characters yield to her.

" 1 drop a tear, but it's almost a single one. I am therefore at ease enough to criticise. I
see all her perfections, perhaps several little, unassuming, modest beauties not attended to by
others. Many. I daresay, have spoke a speech as well, and in great places been as great ; but in
the delicate minutia of character, expressed by a bend, a look, in all those little decencies and
graces which are so charm»ng in life that they are to be prized above virtue, or rather are they
not the essence of it? — in all these she is perfect, and affords a pleasure to an attentive observer
that perhaps was never ecjualled on the stage unless by G«arrick, but in a fine woman they have
a finer effect.

" Her behaviour in private company is reserved, elegant, and sensible. She sings
charmingly ; her sister joins with more judgment, but not so sweet a voice. 1 have not been in
company with her ; you p>erhaps may. if you can get here next week, in which there will be the
3 benefits. Whether she stays long is not yet known. A report prevails that Kemble comes
down for the sisters' benefits. What the plays are is not yet known.

172 Old Belfast.

"And now for the state of the Nation, which at least makes the papers amusing. Much,
indeed, and seeming good of the kind, is said on both sides — too much for me to determine — but
as to the heads of the Party, my admiration, respect, and good opinion has been from the first
bestowed on Mr. Pitt.

" His opponent I believe a man of Ability only, whose ambition and fortune tempt to
Hereditary Crimes. Ld. Chatham's son, I believe, will be proudly virtuous, neither tempted by
vicious pleasure nor broken fortune to sully his or his Father's name, and whose character I
daresay it's his ambition to imitate, the praise of which forever charms his ear.

" As I have spent my C'mas with the old ladys I named to you, I cannot retail to you much
on the subject of the day worth hearing, except it may be an observation that Sam made to
myself. I had not heard anvthing like it broach'd, and thought if it could be supported it might
be, what I am always on the watch for, good subject for your poem, and one which Orrelana
might once again come forward as the champion of his country's rights.

** That this was the most fortunate time for Ireland proving indisputably her independence,
by voting the Prince Regent from right hereditary, or if England took the other side, then to
oppose him. and at any rate establish Ireland in her fullest rights. If there is anything in this.
why are Irishmen at present so becalmed as scarce to give an opinion, as if they durst not till the
matter was fixed for them by England. Were the matter happily weighed, elegantly expressed,
insinuatingly conveyed — if truth was its foundation, I would wish you to be the author.

** Much will, no doubt, be said after the Meeting of Parl^ and by Mr. Grattan in particular,
who, I suppose, will be on this occasion a Foxite. D<^ Haliday and White are the only ones
here.

" There has been nothing here worth relating, as you will see by the insipidity of the resolu-
tions, which were certainly formed so in compliance to Lord Charlemont's desire — at least it
was owin^ to that being made known that there was not an address either here or at Killyleagh,
and I believe his Lordship was very anxious that there should not be any from 15elfast, as other
places, he hoped (and said so), would follow its example. His reason for this was, he said, the
great trouble he had in answering all these addresses, so much as to make it the only disagree-
able matter attending the Review. At the meeting of delegates it was the opinion of all the
address, if there was one, should be merely complimentary, and the chief argument against it
was that such was not acceptable to Ld. C, who wished to do his duty as a thing of course.
Thus the annual proper method of Volunteers making public their political sentiments has been,
in my opinion, ungenerously quashed by his L'dship's finding it sometimes inconvenient to
declare his own, and this indulgence I would never have granted him. but spoke out to him at the
usual times, and never have let even the form die. but at such a time as this to be gagged.

•* There was a long debate, but about nothing. Bryson was at first for addressing, but
ruined both himself and his cause by a rant of nonsense. He was answered by A. Stewart, and
then came about to his opinion, w. Cunningham was for addressing, but not for mentioning
politics, yet raged at the proposition, and talked bt nothing else ; was silenced by Black, who
was against addressing. Jones, I believe, never spoke. Bryson drew up a resolution of thanks
to Ld. C, and read and proposed it aloud. It was thought cool, and a murmur rose against it.
To get rid of it. 'twas proposed a Committee of five should name each other to draw up a
complimentary resolution. Sharman, A. Stewart, Isaac, Crawford, and Bryson brought forth the
little reptile you see.

" Ihe meeting-house is finished, and meets with great admiration, but is not to be opened till
Lord Donegal comes. There is still a large debt, to which the Bishop of Derry very genteely
and unasked sent ^f 50.

" Subscriptions are talked of for building an Academy, and Crombie will get every encourage-
ment.

••The Bishop of Down has been staying at Bristow's, and appears to be the modestest and
most amiable of Bishops. Crombie waited on him at a time when Trail, Leslie, and many more
of the cloth were at court. Among these his L'dship looked like a curate. He received Crombie
well, approved of his scheme, etc. ; but one of them had the impudence to stagger him by asking
if he looked on himself ?is the Principal in the affair? To which the pawky carl answered that
at present all the trouble and management of the matter devolved on him, but that in future
he hoped it would rest on abler persons. Trail supposed confining the matter to the lower
branches of education wd. be sufficient for a trading town like this. He was answered these
also would be taught in course, and, to their great mortification, they found this intelligence was
merely compliment, for that the affair was determined on. and was to meet able support.

•* I suppose you have engaged early accounts from W. Bruce of the Convention.

" I think this Country never met so awful, so glorious a day as this. It has been consigned
to the delegates by a people who has nobly given them the opportunity and the power of com-
manding yx&xSct. to be done their Country, for it is in that strain only that they will be listened to.
'Tis by that they will meet with obedience. If they should in the least degree depart from the
firm spirit which has hitherto marked them and gained them the confidence of a people, they
will lose a moment glorious for themselves and for their Country, perhaps never more to return ;
such are not frequent. The matter they have to deliberate on is good, and both good and great
are divided in their opinions upon it. 1 would be sorry, however, they would find it so vast as to
determine upon nothing, or but a few inferior points. Might it not be better in firm and unani-
mous terms to demand one fundamental right that the rest might grow out of. or time and
experience point out.

" I do not hear much politics. There seems to be a timidity about the times creeping

Extracts from Letters of Mrs. M. M'Tier.

._ _B volunteers. They are frelled and defeated ii ., . ._ ,

idaced too much tnitl in. and have not candour enough to allow ihey erred. They are not active
m Ibis inighly business, and perhaps thro' envy (a more common vice than ia thought) blame and
deride those who are.

' ■ Would you EJve 3^ to know the deleeaiet rrom Bel&«t ? i( ii only halfpence a-piece and
one over, for we have appolnled five. Ld. Bristol, Biibop of Deny ; the Rev<< Mr. Killburtl,
Presbyterian Minister ; Robert Thompson. Merch'-- and Henry Joy, Printer ; if these are not an
aggregate t^ knowledge, the deuce is in it ! If Ihe chuun^; of L<> Bristol (o be a party )n what
relates to Representation of the people be not wrong, 1 think (hete incendiarys (as thejr are now
cdled) have done very well.

' ' Tbey have appointed smart men who espoused Iheir cause, and slick to il now Ihal il is otti
of fashion : for it is really so among all the hitter class, and the nen, and next, gibe and ape the
sneer of their betleis. or smile in silence at the list of names which now appear to consider of a
FarUamenlary Reform and the affairs of the Nation.

" I nevci' was hurt by public matters before ; but (here is a laugh gone forth and easily kept
up by those who. in my opinion, have betrayed a good cause, that once had the voice of a Nation
in its favour, and it is not to be borne coming Irom such. What is become of that torrent of
patriotism which, in a rush over the whole land, promised 10 bear down all before it. till it
reached its height? And must it decline so very rapidly — not, surely, without some deep-concealed
mine, which, tho' powerful, is yet unsuspecied?

" W. Cunningham refused to sign the call for the meeting. He goes to England, so has not
time to serve his country in Convention.

' ' Hill Wilson has set Purdysbum to the Bishop of Down.

' ' Bruce and Harry J oy are appointed delegates to the Conveniion from the Couniy of Ihe
Iowa of Carrickfergus. Whether these eounlys will get leave to send Ihem is uncertain ; but if
any do this will, and 1 rejoice there is a dissenting Clergyman among them, and that Bruce is bs.

" I knew last post you would receive a letter more worthy your attention than mine, and
deferred writing till the matter was settled— not from the reason you supposed, for it was known
only to one or two that you were to be proposed till the day before the meeting. Il was attended
by all Ihase who now attend such places, and was flaiiering to you. Some suppose you will g

to Convention ; many thai you will no" '''' "-- ' — - ' "■-

Haliday) 1 have answered that I am

white you avowed ihe * Helot ' and refused to attend Con>

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Life of Mary Ann M'Cracken.

Xife of fftarij Hnn fl>*(Eraclien, sister of tenvQ 3o?
fl>*Craclien.

By her Gkand-Niecb, Miss ANNA M'CLEERY.

flccounl of ihe excellence of her of whom it treala, who was truly
> woman of whom it might be said "she hath done what ^e
could," or because of the siJtring events with which she came

Miss Maty Ann M 'Cracken was bom io Belfast, 8tb July,
1770. I-Ier childhood was spent in a house in High Street
nearly opposite Bridge Street. Her father, John M'Cracken, was
captain and part owner of a vessel trading between Belfast and
the West Indies, and belonged 10 a Scotch family which had
settled in Iretaad. His mother was a sliict Presl^lerian, stein
and uncompromising. On Christmas Day she would sit conspicuously al her spinning-wheel
as a protest against the keeping holy of such a time. Her granddaughter, Maiy Ann
M'Cracken, was wont to say «ne inspired more fear than love, and was enabled to exercise
considerable influence, from the firm conviction, entertained by ber children and dependants,
that any threaienings she might utter would surely come to pass. Several illustrations were
given of this supposed power of invoking judgment, one of which, as it concerns the family,
may be related.

In the year 1763 Captain M'Cracken had occasion to spend some months in Liverpool
to superintend Ihe building of a new vessel. He proposed to take his wife to reside with
him during that lime, and to leave theii children, two in number, under their grandmother's
care. The old lady, not relishing the charge, told hei daughiei-in-law "she wished she
might get a scare before coming back." And truly she did ; for her husband, not wishing
her to return in the new and untried vessel, sent her home before him. The ship in which
she was encountered rough weather, and was wrecked on the South Rock near Ballywalter.
All on board were saved by getting into (he boat, but somehow they were unable to bring
the boat quite to dry land, and had to wade a long distance in shallow water. To add to
Mrs. M'Cracken's fatigue, she carried in her pockets 200 guineas, which had been entrusted
to her to bring over, so inconvenient at that time were the arrangements for transmittinf;

Mrs. M'Cracken's maiden name was Ann Joy. She was daughter of Francis Joy, who
established the Neas-Ltllir ist Sept., 1737 (the third newspaper published in Ireland). The
Joys claimed to be of Huguenot descent, three named Joy or Joyeose having come from
France, one of whom seiiled in the North of Ireland. Mary M'Oacken used Io remark
ihal she could trace dilferent nationalities among her ancestry. Her mother's grandfather
was Mr. Geo^e Martin, of whom she writes as follows : —

" My grandmother Joy was daughter to George Martin, who was Sovereign of Belfast,
and a Presbyterian. It was at that time the custom for the Sovereign and burgesses to
march in procession to church, and for the Sovereign to hand LadyDonegalt Into her seat, from
whence she had a view of the burgesses' seat. Not seeing the Sovereign there, and, on in-
quiring as to the cause, fmding that he was a Presbyterian, and that when he had performed
his official duty he went Io his own place of worship, she gave orders that in future none but
members of the Established Church should be appointed burgesses ; and at thai lime there
were but eleven who could write their own names. This my mother had heard from her
mother, and wished very much to see the book in which their names were recorded, and
being acquainted with the Town Clerk, she asked him to get her a si^ht of Ihc book, which
he did, and I looked over her shoulder and saw it written—Hugh (his X mark) Doak, brick-
layer, but neglected to ascertain the date. My grandmother Joy's Christian name waa
Margaret ; she was the youngest daughter of Mr. Martin, and was born in the year 1690.
forty years before my mother. George Marlin made a present to the town of a piece of
ground on which the old Market House was built. He advanced ^z,ooo <o pay the King's
troops (he was Sovereign when King William came Io the throneX which was never repaid
to him or any of his family."

Such was the stoiy related by Mary M'Cracken as a family tradition, bat there seenis
to be some confusion of dates and persons. According Io Benn't Histtry o/Btlfiul, the only

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Geo. Martin whose name appears in the list of Sovereigns held that post in 1649. He did
not cntnplele his year of ofhce, as his house and goods were seized by the Parliamenlaiy ttoopi
under Venables. and he him»:lf forced to fly to Scotland, because he did not provide accotn-
modation for the soldiers. This Geo. Martin was great -greal-giand father to Henry Joy,
ojid would l)eai the same relationship to Mary M'Cracken. He had eiehl sons.

Hugh Ooak was Sovereign in 1647. His signature was appended to various public
documents, always in initials in printed character (the mode of making a mark frequently
practised in those times), the full name having been written by someone else, not always in
the same handwriting. His will was signed in the same manner, and shows that he was
possessed of considerable profterly. and that his daughter had been married to a member of
one ol the best families in the town.

Such an incident as that concerning Ladj^ Donegall and the Sovereign is by no means
incredible, as both before and after the Revolution there were laws on the statute book which
prohibited dissenters from holding any public oflices except the most menial. These taws
were not always enlbrced, but they might be if it suited any one's interest or humour to

demand that they should. There might be reasons why, in Belfast, they should sometimes be
allowed to fall into abeyance. Not only were the Presbyterians the most numerous tuid
influential, but the office of Sovereign was one not always coveted in those unsettled timet

That there was much uncertainty in the enforcement of Acts of Conformity would appear
from a petition presented to the House of Commons, in 1707, against the return of an M.F.
for Belfast. At bis election only six burgesses could vote, the others not having received the
Sacrament according to the Episcopal form. The six who voted were equally divided i the
Sovereign, therefore, claimed to have the casting vote, which he gave in favour of his man.
On the petition being presented, one of the opposets of the relumed member failed to prove
that he had taken the Sacramental test. The M.P, therefore retained his seat, having been
returned by three out of twelve burgesses.

Mary M'Cracken was the youngest but one of a large family, of whom four sons and
two daughters lived to grow up, and leveral attained to an advanced age. She was a delicate
child, and thought to be in consumption. Contrary to the modem practice, she was kept on
low diet for the benefit of her health. However, the treatment does not appear to have been
unsuccessful, for, as she said herself, "I have been a long time consuming away. " She must

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have been an active child, since she accomplished the feat of hopping three times across High
Street without stopping. She was very fond of animals — ^a liking she retained to the end of
her days.

She went through the usual school routine of the time. The division of subjects would
seem strange to the scholar of the present day. There was a school for English, and another
for writing. Girls were sent for a time to a sewing and again to a knitting school. In all
branches of sewing she was proBcient. There was no French teacher in Belfast in her school
days, but her father, who had been in France as a prisoner of war, wished his children to
learn the language, and engaged an old French weaver, who lived in the town, to come in
the evenings to teach them. His English translations were somewhat peculiar — il faut was
always *' it be to be." Mary would generally endeavour to get her lesson said first, that she
might get a sleep with her head on the table.

After leaving school she had no idle time. Besides other household work, her share
of shirt- making, stocking-darning (her mother knit the stockings), for four brothers, gave
plenty of occupation.

When she was past her childhood, the family left High Street, and went to Rosemarv
Street. Two of the young men married, but remained for a time beneath the parental root.
Their house was known by some as Noah's Ark, and numerous were the inmates, the inferior
animals being largely represented.

In course of time Mary M'Cracken, always energetic, proposed to her sbter that they
should go into business. The project was carried out, and tney commenced the business of
muslin manufacturers. Mary was the moving spirit, and worked early and late. She has
said that so closely confined was she at times, that, when going to the post office before break-
fast, she has felt inclined to leap and dance with delight in the fresh morning air. Her chief
object in trying to make money was that she might have some of her own to give away as
she wished. She was of a very sanguine temperament and did not spare herself, and to some
extent she succeeded in her object ; but — perhaps the times were against her — she had much
struggling and anxiety, and the ultimate result was disappointing.

^ Before proceeding further, it may be well to take a glance at the state of the country
and the condition of the people. Anarchy had reigned in Ireland for centuries, and even
when the times became more settled, the poverty in the rural districts was extreme. Still
the mass of the people, ignorant of modern improvements, and prejudiced against innovations,
were content to rub along in the old way, particularly those of them who happened to live
on the estate of a free-handed resident landlord, who would keep about him an unlimited
number of hangers-on, paying little money (for of that he had small share himself), but easy-
going in his exactions of service, and dispensing hospitality as lavishly in the kitchen as in the
dining-room. But a very little disturbance of the regular order of things — such as a less abundant
harvest, a bad potato crop, or anything which reduced ever so slightly the scanty supply of
necessaries — brought them to actual want, and anyone who demanded money by legal right,
be he tithe collector, agent of non-resident landlord, excise or custom-house officer — any
messenger of the law — was regarded as a natural enemy to be thwarted and resisted.

The religious element mingled largely with all agrarian troubles, for it so happened
that those who were opposed in interests were usually of different creeds. It has ever been the
case that religious wars have produced an intensity of bitterness, estrangement, and distrust
beyond any others, and Ireland has been no exception to this rule.

It would be tedious even to name the various parties who banded themselves together
to resist the law or oppose each other. Their numbers were drawn from the peasantry, or
the smaller farmers, who were little better off. Ixit it suffice to mention a few of the Northern
societies — "Oak- Boys" and "Hearts of Steel " between 1762 and 1770 ; then there were
the ** Peep-of-Day Boys," from whom were developed the modern Orangemen ; and the
"Defenders," who were Catholics. The "Hearts of Steel" came into connection with
Belfast on the occasion of a riot in 1 770, under the following circumstances : —

Some of Lord Donegall's leases having fallen simultaneously, he asked an increased
rent on renewing them. This was by no means unreasonable, because the land had been
originally let at a very low rate in the beginning of the century, just after a long period of
troublous times ; however, he also desired renewal fines. Some of the prosperous merchants
of Belfast were ready to pay larger fines than the tenants had ready cash for, and took some
of the farms over the tenants* heads. This was done simply as a speculation for the purpose
of sub-letting them, and aroused great indignation in the country. Greatly exaggerated
reports were circulated as to the sums Lord Donegall had obtained. Some cattle belonging
to a Belfast merchant who had taken land at BaTlyclare were maimed, and a farmer ^om
Tem]>lepatrick was arrested as a participator in the outrage, and taken to Belfast barracks
for security.

The " Hearts of Steel" in the neighbourhood, having assembled, called on the people
to release the prisoner, and a crowd marched to Bel^t. Being unable to attain their object,

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ihey proceeded lo ihe house of another offender, a leading merchanl, which Ihey set on fire.
Th^ returned lo the barracks, but Ihe soldiers fired, and three men were killed. The in-
habilanls feaied the destruction of the town. N^otialions were opened, and eventually the
prisoner was released.

^Vhile a sort of listless discontent, which on provocalion was ever ready to break out
into a flame, pervaded the agrarian popuUlion, the mercantile portion of Ihe community had
likewise their grievances : some of the more important may be n jticed

Previous to the Revolution there had been considerable exportation of wool tnd
woollen manufactures, but in the reign of William III a law was p-used uhich altogetbei
destroyed the trade. The enportaijon of woollen goods was prohibited altogether, and only
wool might be sent lo England. Thus a poor counli} was further impoverished, and a
stimulus given to smuggling — a lorm of lawlessness already too much practised In many

E»rts of the islanii there were facilities for carrying on a contraband trade — a tugged coast,
ad roads, and a scanty population, who sympathised nith Ihe evasion of laws which were
imposed by the stronger country for their own interest with high handed poner In return
for Irish goods, wine and brandy were brought (rom the Continent Gentlemen on whose
property the landing was effected had their cellars fille 1 at a trifling expense This minis
tered to the habits of bvish hospitality which helped lo ruin -.0 many families, while it gained
(or (hem popularity among their own class and the devotion of thtir numerous dependants

But smu^ling was looked upon as a very venial offence indeed, and was commonly
practised. Mary M'Cracken related, as a proof of her father's strict integrity, that he would
not smu{£le, nor allow his sailors to do so on his behalf, as he considered a custom.house
oath as binding on the conscience as any other. Some captains made £300 a-year by
smuggling, but her mother made as much 1^ her manufacturing business.

Duties between England and Ireland must have been, to say the least of it, exceedingly
troublesome, and were, when possible, evaded. A lady visiting England would buy English
lace for herself and friends, and sew jl on all her garments, to be taken off on her return.

But to return lo the subject of manufactures. When ihe woollen business was
destroyed in Ireland, by way of making some compensation, the manufacture of linen and
exporting of it was encouraged. One of the measures taken to promote this olijecl was the
sending of Huguenot weavers into the country, to introduce a better manner of weaving.

From time immemorial linen had been manufactured in Ireland, no doubt al first in a
very rude manner, but improving with the requirements and appliances of civilisation ; how.
ever, it was only alioul the end of the seventeenth century that it became an article of

The manufacture was principally carried on in the North. Spinners and weavers
worked in their own houses, and the work when finished was taken to the employers, or to

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nucket to be sold. During the eighteenlh centuiy the trade in Uneo increased rapidly, and
in the Inst quurier of the century the cotton manufacture was introduced, and wns foe a lime a
considerable business, though it has now left the country.

Belfast bad been rising in importance as a commercial town, and had become the chief
port in Ulster. Early in Ihc century a brown linen market was held in it, and in 1782 il
was proposed to establish a white linen market for the North of Ireland. A subscription
was opened to build a White Linen Hall, ihe foundalion-stone of which was laid the
ibllowing year-
Various other industries were carried on in the town, and as trade with foreign countries
increased, and the restrictions upon it became more generally felt, men of business began to
find themselves Qumeioufi and blluential enough to protest against Ihem with some hope of
being attended to.

In 1779 some partial relief was obtained, and there was great rejoicing in Belfast in
March, 17S0, when news arrived that an Act had been passed in the British Parliament
granting to Ireland " Free trade with America," as it was called. That meant the repeal of
a law by which trade with Ibe Colonies could only be conducted through England, so that
goods meant for Ireland had to be landed in England and re-shipped, and viei vena. The
relaxations granted were, however, but partial, and, moreover, rested on an insecure basis.
What England was at Ihat time pleased to grant she might withdraw.

When England's resources had been taxed to the utmost by the American War, with
France also an enemy, the Irish had been suffered to raise a volunteer army 10 protect their
homes ftom invasion. When that danger was at an end, the Volunteers turned their attention
to home affairs, and, waxing bolder by their first success, assembled in 17S2, formulated the
wishes of the people, and demanded an independent parliament. The repeal of Poyoings'
Act was obtained, and the Irish Parliament Iwcame, at least in name and form, independent
of England. But much more was needed before the hope could be entertained, of obtaining
from Parliamenl the redress of grievances which il was for the supposed interest of the ruling
powers to uphold. At that lime the so'calted representation of Ihe people was a mere
mockery, and " Reform of Parliament" became the cry. Catholic Emancipation also was
maintained to be a duty, but whether it should be asked for in its complelencsi at once, or
whether il ought to be partial and gradual, was a question about whjch there was much
dtlference of opinion and dissension among the Protestant agitators for reform.

Belfast members of Parliament were chosen by the SovereJEn and burgesses, under the
direction ofthe Earl of DonegalL In some of the counties the electors were constrained to

i8o Old Belfast.

return the nominees of their landlords, and even where they were sufficiently independent to
send popular candidates to Parliament, these sometimes yielded to the temptation of place or
pension, and betrayed the trust committed to them. No Catholic had a right to vote.

The inhabitants of Belfast were most energetic in endeavouring to secure, in County
Antrim (where alone they had any power), representatives pledged to do their utmost to
obtain their desires, and to abstain from the acceptance oi place or pension.

Reared amid such influences, Mary M'Cracken was from her early years intensely
interested in politics; and various political incidents, in which some of her relatives were con-
cerned, became indelibly imprinted on her memory, such as the following : — Her grandfather,
Francis Joy, then residing in Randalstown, a very old man, confin^ to his couch by a
disease in his leg, had himself conveyed to Antrim to vote at a Parliamentary election for
Rowley and O'Neill, the popular candidates. His son Robert, meeting him there, said —
" What brought you here, sir ?" ** The good of my country," was the reply. The side for
which he voted was triumphant, but the day that the members were chaired he died.

Another anecdote was : — "After reading —

•And next the little printer we'll engage:
Strange that a man so upright and so sage
Should be perverted by a pageant gown,
Laughed at by fifteen thousand of the town ;
This man's a contr.ist to his sons and sire,
His brother and his sons, whom all admire' —

I asked my sister, ten years older than myself, who were the 15.000 who laughed at my
Uncle Harry ; for my Uncle Harry was my mother's favourite brother, to whom she went for
advice, and every person esteemed him. * All the people of the town,' said my sister. '

The lines quoted are from a scjuib entitled — ** In Praise of the Cor^wration of Belfast :
an Heroic Poem." The principal mhabiianls had petitioned Lord Donegall to send Mr.
Waddell Cunningham to represent Belfast in Parliament, which he refused to do. Mr.
Cunningham and Mr. Hewitt then contested the seat for Carrickfergus. The former was
returned by a large majority in February, 1784. In the following month the Sovereign and
burgesses appointed Mr. Hewitt M.P. for Belfast.

As Mary M*Cracken advanced to womanhood, the interest in public affairs became
more absorbing, and notable events followed in quick succession.

The French Revolution had exerted a powerful influence. It seemed at the time as if
at once the oppression 01 ages had ceased for ever, and a nation had burst its bonds, and
started on a career of progress and prosperity, in which the poor and weak would have a
part, and share in the privileges hitherto denied them.

While as yet the horrors with which we associate that great event had not l>een
developed, the enthusiasm was well nigh universal. On the anniversary of the taking of the
Bastille, that and the other events of the period, by which freedom appeared to have been
secured, were commemorated in Belfast by processions, assemblies, and dinners, in which
the Volunteers took a prominent part.

The war of American independence, and its successful termination, was celebrated with
due honour, and the victors hehl up to admiration.

Ireland, too, had wrongs to be redressed ; and the example set by other nations helped
to sustain the energy of those who laboured for their removal.

Some of the Belfast politicians were becoming alarmed at the increasing tendency of
opinion towards democracy. Lord Charlemont was communicated with, and at his suggestion
a Whig club was established in the town early in 1790, similar to one which had been
founded some years previously in Dublin.

The Volunteers, while they refused to compromi.se their independence by accepting of
any assistance from Government, always professed the greatest loyalty, and manifested their
readiness not only to defend the country from foreign foes, but also to lend their assistance to
enforce the law at home.

** 1786, Nov. 17. — At the request of the sheriff of the Co. Antrim, a party of the Belfa.st
Volunteers, with two .six-pounders (one of which l)elonged to the 1st Compv* the other to the
Belfast Blues), marched to Ballymena, to assist in enforcing an execution on a house in that
neighbourhood. On their arrival, the two pieces were drawn up in front of the hou.se (which
hat! l)een previously prepared for defence), and pointed in order to begin the attack, under
the orders of the sheriff, when the defenders fled precipitately, and effected an escape ; after
which, possession was taken by the sheriff.'*

**I792, Ap. 2. — A detachment of Belfast 1st Vol. Compv* with one of the Compy's
field pieces, marched, at the request of the sheriff of the Co., to the townland of Derrymore
and barony of Upper Massareene. which was forcibly withheld. After an hour spent in
fruitless entreaties to prevail on the intruders to surrender the premises, the sheriff ordered

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the corps to fire on the house. A hot action immediately commenced, and after a desperate
resistance, in which the house was much shattered, the occupiers retired to the rear, and
made their escape in different directions. The detachment returned to Lisburn on the same
evening, having marched upwards of 32 miles, and arrived in Belfast without the slightest
injury having happened to any individual."

The Society of United Irishmen was established in Belfast in Oct., 1791, their osten-
sible object being to procure ** A complete reform in the Legislature, founded on a com-
munion of rights, and a union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion."

But every organisation in Ireland, whether for reform, revolution, or rebellion, has
been composed of men having different ends in view, who could travel but a short way
together. No doubt the ostensible object was the real one of many of the United Irishmen,
but it is now well known that some of the organisers aimed from the very first at separation
from England.

Theobald Wolfe Tone assisted in founding the first club of United Irishmen, and for that
purpose he visited Belfast in the autumn of 1791, accompanied by Thos. Russell. He was
invited by a secret committee, who, without obtruding themselves upon public notice,
managed the affairs of the advanced political party in Belfast. Tone had espoused the
Catholic cause, although he was not a Roman Catholic himself, but appears to have had, in
so acting, objects as yet but partially avowed, and, as one who for a time acted with him
wrote, '*to have been only so far set upon emancipation as it fell in with his ideas of
reform upon the French principles."

His advocacy was, however, welcomed hy the Catholics; and about half a-year after
having organised the United Irishmen's club m Belfast, he was appointed Catholic Agent,
under the title of Assistant Secretary, at a salary of ;i^200 a-year.

What were Tone's religious opinions, if he had any, did not very clearly appear even to
his contemporaries. Mary M*Cracken, in reply to Dr. Madden, author of 7^e United Irish"
nun : their Lives and Times, wrote — * * Tone was not sceptical. There was a society in Belfast
of a political kind, all of whose members were sceptics. They would not admit him, because
he l>elieved in the truths of religion."

However, he advocated with skill and success the cause of urilon, and it was uphill
work, for distrust of the Catholics was strong among the Dissenters of the North. During
Tone's sojourn at this time, there were many discussions and arguments on the subject.
Objections such as the following were advanced by the opponents ofunion : —

1st danger — To true religion. Roman Catholics would, if emancipated, establish an
Inquisition.

2nd. To property. By reviving Court of Claims, and admitting evidence to substan-
tiate Catholic titles.

3rd. Of throwing power into their hands, which would make this a Catholic Govern-
ment, incapable of enjoying or extending liberty.

A newspaper, called The Northern Star, was started to advocate the cause of the
United Irishmen. The first number appeared 1st Feb., 1792.

The brothers of Mary M*Cracken took their share in the doings of the time. The
eldest was a Volunteer ; Henry Joy, her favourite brother, two years her senior, and an
older one, William, were United Irishmen.

The ladies of the family took a lively, if less active, interest in politics. The Northern
Star was attentively perused. Miss Mary once exclaimed, on recovering from a fever — ** Oh,
I have missed so many of the Stars,"

Paine's Rights of Man was read and admired. Tone called it — The Koran of Blefescu
(Belfast). Mrs. M'Cracken, afterwards hearing of his Age of Reason, said it could not be his,
but must have been written by some one who attributed it to him to discredit him.

Paine, however, afterwards fell in the estimation of at least her younger daughter, for
she spoke of his vulgarity and inordinate self-conceit.

^ In 1793 the Volunteers were suppressed. A proclamation was issued, nth March, for-
bidding armed parties to parade in military array.

When the Volunteers first demanded Reform, all was unanimity. No dissentient voice
was heard in Belfast ; but as time went on, differences of opinion arose. Some wished to
follow the French example ; others were cautious and moderate, and sought only to improve,
not to overturn.

Joy, in his preface to Belfast Polities, published in 1794, describes the disunion which

{)re vailed in the town, and the nissatisfaction which was felt on account of its being garrisoned
)y a large military force. The few adherents of the court who had previously been con-
strained to keep silence, now ventured to express their opinion, encouraged by the presence
of the army. The advanced party took credit to themselves for the change of popular feeling
and public measures with respect to the Catholics, and declared their determination to act on
the most enlarged principles, and to make no compromise with bigotry and injustice.

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ifloided a pretext foi the employment of

The moderate patly charged their opponents with having, by imitation of republican
principles and language, alarmed the more moderate, and caused distrust oo the part of the
Catholics ; while their aHectation of secrecy and policy of bluster had g, ■ . .•

Goveniment to refuse further concessions, and had aflord

Id 1795 the Society of United Irishmen changed its character — it became secret, > lest
was required, and now, without doubt, its purpose was separation.

Henry Joy M'Cracken continued a member in its new organisation. He was employed
to induce the Defenders to join with the United Irishmen. lie was suited for this work, as
he had engaging manners, an agreeable address, and unbounded enthusiasm. The Defenders
were Roman Catholics, the United Irishmen mostly Presbyterians.

In the early summer of 1795, Tone paid a second visit to Bei fast on his way to America,
being compelled to leave Ireland in consequence of his political conduct. During this visit,
he and lout others met in M'Arl's fort. Cave Hill, where ihey took "A solemn obligation
never to de^t in their efforts until thev had subverted the amhotity of England over their
country, and asserted her independence. One of these four was H.J. M'Cracken.

=, but probably did not know how

^., nie managtr of a cotton factory in

the Falls Road, and resided at the works. In a letter to a friend, she lamented his lonely
and isolated position ; but it is possible he may have had more occupation for his leisure
hours, and even for some of those which might with advantage have been devoted to
business, than she or the rest of the family suspected. Indeed, some one wrote to his father
expressing dissatisfaction with his attention to business. However, it is impossible to know
how these ihmgs may have been. Business in general was in a very depressed condition.
The cotton manufacture had been introduced, and seemed likely to flourish, but expectations
were disappointed. The partnership of the Falls Road concern was tlissoKed in 1795, and
the manager returned home.

Some time afterwards there was a riot, in which some of the dragoons were concerned.
They cut down some shop signs, among them a ligure of a French and one of an American
general. H. J. M'Cracken interfered, and seiied one of the soldiers, whom be delivered up
to his officer. This afiair had the appearance of a drunken brawl, but a deeper political
significance was attached to it than appeared on the surface ; and M'Cracken went to lodge
in Holywood. where Thomas Russell, who had a^istetl Tone and Nelson in oi^nising the
first United Irishmen's Qub, frequently bore him company.

On one occasion, Mary N'OracCien asked her brother if he was not afraid to tiust the
Catholics (at that time there were very few in Belfast). He said—" Would not you trust
Betty?" She replied — "I would." Betty was an old charwoman whom their mother had

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once employed to assist in hiding their silver plate, when it was reported that the French
were in Carrickfeigus. She was the only Catholic the family knew at the time. The old
woman mourned a son who had enlisted as a soldier. ** It*s not," she said, ** the loss of my
son, but his taking the oath that's so much against him" (viz., the abjuration of Popery).
M^Cracken's special work among the United Irishmen was to organise the Defenders, who
were Catholics : he had a command among them. Few of them had education or position
to fit them to be officers.

The Government was well informed of the proceedings of the United Irishmen. In
1796 some of those in Belfast were arrested, among whom were Wm. and H. J. M*Cracken.
The prisoners were taken to Kilmainham, where they were detained fourteen months.
During that time, the Misses M*Cracken twice visited Dublin. Some of their relatives had
gone to reside in that city, among others Counsellor Joy. The muslin business was still going
on, but does not appear to have been flourishing. Their mother wrote —

** Nov, 16, 1796.
"Dear Mary,

** I was sorry to find, by John's letter to his wife, that you don't like Dublin, though
I was sure it would be the case ; but I hoped your seeing Harry, and that you might get some
of our muslins sold, would partly reconcile you to it. . . . Our friends are all very
attentive to me, and I could do pretty well about your business if I had money to give the
weavers ; and indeed they behave very welL

** Dear Mary,

•* Your aflfec*- Mother,

"ANN M'CRACKEN."

II. J. M'Cracken suffered in health from his confinement, and was an invalid for some
time after his return, but as soon as possible he resumed his labours in the cause. Prepara-
tions for the Rising were going on, and the order was expected during March and April,
1798. The coach fiom Dublin to Belfast was to be stopped as a signal, and North and South
were to rise simultaneously ; but the courage and resolution for bold action were wanting in
the commanders of Co. Antrim (**The cowardly directors," as they came to be designated).
They hesitated. The general resigned. The Co. Down general had been arrested. Diffi-
culties arose about a leader. Eventually, H. J. M 'Cracken was chosen General-in-Chief.
But the opportunity had been lost — everything had become disorganised — the fearful and
half-hearted had deserted ; many even of the zealous knew not where to go, nor whom to
follow. At various places small parties had assembled according to appointment, but finding
no leader and no instructions, had no other course open to them but to endeavour to make
their way back to their homes as best they might.

H. J. M*Cracken, suddenly thrust into the foremost place, was considered to have
shown much skill, but it was a forlorn hope. He and a few coadjutors exerted themselves to
the utmost. The battle of Antrim was fought on the 7th June, and the Insurgents completely
routed.

H. J. M'Cracken and a small party escaped ; they wandered for some days among the
mountains near Belfast, their first intention being to join the Wexford men. Mary M 'Cracken
having heard of the disastrous issue of the fight, went in search of her brother, accompanied
by her sister-in-law, who wished to find out something about her husband, also a fugitive.
It was soon discovered that William had succeeded in getting back to Belfast. However, his
wife would not desert her friend, and the two proceeded on their way. After spending a
night in a house of a friend to the cause, they resumed their search, and were at last successnil.
After giving the information to those in hiding that Col. Nugent knew of their intention to
join the Southern rebels, some time was spent in consultation, after which the ladies were
led to a poor cottage, where they passed the second night. They had another interview
with M*Cracken the following morning, and returned home. Their journey was performed
on foot

Not long afterwards the fugitive was taken prisoner, when on his way to the coast to
embark in a foreign vessel, arrangements having been made with the captain to take him on
board.

The remainder of the sad story will be best told in Mary M*Cracken*s own words.
The following are extracts from letters published in Dr. Madden's The United Irishmen :
their Lives and Times (first edition :) —

i84 Old Belfast.

" Soon after the former interview, I received the following letter from my brother : —

* Monday, i8th June^ '79^»
'Dear Mary,

' The clothes came in very good time, as I had much need of a change, having^
never had that luxury since I left home before.

•H. J. M*C.'

PAC'SIMILB OP AUTOGRAPH OF HENRY JOY m'CRACKEN.
Imcribid in a copy of ' P. TBRBhrril COMCEDl/C MOGUNT. M.D.XXVrrr." (In possession of the Editor.)

** Shortly afterwards, I again went to see him at D. Bodle*s, beside the Cave Hill, but
nearer to Belfast. He was a poor labourer. The girls often rose out of iheir beds early in
the morning to let the fugitives get rest. I had afterwards an opportunity of materially
serving that family, and some others who had done similar acts of kindness.

** It was on Sunday afternoon, the 8th July, my birthday, that we got intelligence that
Harry was taken prisoner by four Carrickfergus yeomen, one of whom knew him.
Immediately on getting intelligence of Harry's arrest, my father and 1 set off for Carrick-
fergus, and with difficulty obtained permission to visit him, the officer who accompanied
us politely standing at a distance not to prevent our conversation. Harry desired me not to
use any solicitations on his account ; and, aftei expressing to me his wishes on many matters^
he desired me to tell my brother John to come to him. My mother had sent him a favourite
book of his, Youn^^s Nij^ht Thoughts^ and I observed a line from it written on the wall of
his cell — * A friend's worth all the hazard we can run.'

**On the i6th he was brought in prisoner to Belfast, in the evening. My sister and I
immediately set out to try if we could see him. He was then standing with a strong escort,
about a dozen I think, of soldiers, who were drawn up in the middle of what is now called
Castle Place. We could not speak to him there. He was then taken to the Artillery
Barracks in Ann Street ; and we hastened to Col. Durham, who lodged in Castle Place. We
knocked at the door, and just as it was opened, the Col., who had been out, came up ; and
when we earnestly requested he would give us an order for admission to see our brother, who
was to be tried the next day, he replied that * if our father, mother, sisters, brothers, and
all the friends we had in the world, were in similar circumstances, he would give no such
order.' He had by this time entered his hall-door, which he shut against us with great
violence. We returned home, and then learned that there was a large party of officers dining
at the Exchange Rooms. We hurried there, and sent a message to Col. Barber, who instantly
sent a young officer to accompany us to my brother ; and when we apologised to this gentle-
man for givmg him so much trouble, he said he did not consider it any trouble, and would
be glad to serve us. . . . When we reached the place of confinement, he very kindly
stood at a distance from the door of the cell. . . . Harry desired that Mrs. Holmes,
daughter to my uncle, Henry Joy, and Miss Mary Tomb, his granddaughter, might be
requested to attend his trial the next day, to prove the fact of their having advised nim to
leave Belfast, in order that if no material evidence was brought against him, some advantage
might be derived from the circumstance of his friends having endeavoured to persuade him
to leave town previous to the Antrim business. ... I rose at six, and set out in a
carriage for the place where Miss Tomb was then staying with a lady near Lisburn. I
endeavoured to keep up her spirits as well as I could, fearing, from the state of grief and
anxiety she was then in, she would be unable to give evidence. She came with me, and
on arriving in town, the 17th July, I proceeded to the Exchange, where the trial was just
commenced. The moment I set my eyes on Harry, I was struck with the extraordinary
serenity and composure of his look. This was no time to think about such things, but yet I
could not help gazing on him ; it seemed to me that I had never seen him look so well, so
full of healthful bloom, so free from the slightest trace of care or trouble, as at that moment,
when he was perfectly aware of his approaching fate.

**I sat very near the table when the trial was going on. Col. Montgomery was
President. The first witness called [was Minis]. The other witness [James Beckl
knew him by a mark on his throat, which mark was not seen till his handkerchief was taken off.

Life of Mary Ann M'Cracken.

i8S

" Hope informed me thai sn artilleryman, or the [name ol Miildoun], hid been on gaud
the morning of the t7th July, and had told him that Ihe witnesses who had aworn a^njt
M'Craclien did not know him; that he was walking in (he yaid when an officer pointed
him out lo Ihem from a window looking into the yard, and told ihem of the mark oD his
throat. (This practice of pointing out prisoners to Crown wilnessM was by no means un-
Qon in Ireland at that period.)

" Immediately preceding the examination of the witnesses, my father, who was iust
ered from a severe and tedious fit of illness, was called aside by Pollock, who told him

he had such evidence against his ■

would .

erlainly hang him, that hii life was in hia

. , who the person was who had been appointed K
imand the people at Antrim, in whose place he (Id'Cracken) had acted. My liither
replied he knew nolhingi and could do nothing in the matter ; he would rather his son died
than do a dishonourable action. The tyrant, however, not content with the Uial of bit
victim, would torture him still further hy calling Harry to the conference, and repeated the
same offer to himself, who, well knowing his father's sentiments, answered " he would do any-
thing which his father knew it was right for him to do." Pollock repeated Ihe offer, on which

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my father said — ' Harry, my dear, I know nothing of the business, bat you know best what
you ought to do.' Harry then said — ' Farewell, father/ and returned to the table to abide
the issue of the triaL

'* After I left him, I was told that Major Fox went up to him and asked him, for the last
time, if he would give any information, at which he smiled, and said * he wondered how
Major Fox could suppose him such a villain.'

** The proceedmgs went on, and after some time Henry complained of thirst, and
asked me to get him aa oimnge or some wine and water. I hastened home, our house being
at a short distance from the place, and on my way back I was accosted by the wife of Wm.
Thompson, an Englishman, a calico print-cutter in my brother's employment, who, refusing
to give information against my brother, had 200 lashes inflicted on him, on a charge of having
engraved a seal with the device of a harp and some popular motto. Mrs. T. enquired of me
about the trial that was going on. She said if his life was in danger she would appear as a
witness, and swear that she had seen Henry in the street of Belfast on the day of the Antrim
fight. She followed me to the Exchange, and repeated the proposal to Harry and Mr. T.
Stewart, who was his attorney, who called Harry aside to hear it. They both told her her
proposal could not be accepted

** After the examination of the witnesses, I rose and went forward to the table. I
stated what appeared to me to be unlike truth in the evidence that had been given by the
witnesses for the prosecution, expressing a hope that they would not consider such evidence
sufficient to take away life, the testimony of one witness impeaching the character and credit
of the approver, on whose statement the charge was mainly dependent for support.

" Harry had taken notes of the trial, and before its termination he said to me in a
whisper — *You must be prepared for my conviction.* All his friends could do was to
endeavour to get his sentence commuted to banishment. Before the close of the proceedings
I hastened home with the intelligence, and my mother went instantly to Gen. Nugent s
house and requested an interview, but he refused to be seen. I returned to the Exchange
before my mother came back, but found that Harry had been removed.

•• I little expected that any efforts to save him would be successful : but I felt I had a
duty to perform — to prevent misrepresentation, and to put it out of the power of his enemies
to injure his character while living, or his memory when dead. I followed him to the
artillery barracks, where 1 saw Major Fox just going in, and asked his permission to see my
brother. He desired me to wail a little, but I followed him, and when he came to the door
of my brother's cell I remained behind him at a few paces' distance. The door of the cell
was opened, and I heard him say — * You are ordered for immediate execution.' My poor
brother seemed to be astonished at the announcement — indeed he well might be at the
shortness of the time allotted to him ; but seeing me falling to the ground, he sprang forward
and caught me. I did not, however, lose consciousness for a single instant, but felt a strange
sort of composure and self-possession, and in this frame of mind I continued the whole day.
I knew it was incumbent on me to avoid disturbing the last moments of my brother's life,
and I endeavoured to contribute to render them worthy of his whole career. We conversed
as calmly as we had ever done. I asked him if there was anything particular that he desired
to have done. He said — ' I wish you to write to Russell, inform him of my death, and tell

him I have done my duty ' He said he would like to see Mr. Kelburne, who

was our clergyman. I told him I (eared he would be unable to come (he was ill) ; but that
if he wished to see a clergyman. Dr. Dickson was under the same roof, and would come to
him. He replied he would rather see Mr. Kelburne. as it would gratify his father and
mother. He of course was sent for. ... In the meantime Dr. Dickson was brought to him.
. , . . . During the early part of the day Harry and I had conversed with tranquillity
on the subject of his death. We had been brought up in a firm conviction of an all -wise and
overruling Providence, and of the duty of entire resignation to the Divine will. I remarked
that his death was as much a dispensation of Providence as if it had happened in the com-
mon course of nature ; to which he assented. He told me there had been much perjury on
his trial, but that the truth would have answered the same purpose.

** After the clergymen were gone, I asked for a pair of scissors that I might take off
some of his hair. A young officer who was on guard went out of the room and brought a
pair of scissors, but hesitated to trust them into my hands, when I asked him indignantly if
ne thought I meant to hurt my brother. He then gave them to me, and I cut off some of
Harry's hair which curled round his neck, and folded it up in paper and put it into my
bosom. Fox at that moment entered the room, and desired me to give it to him, * as too
much use,* he said, ' had already been made of such things.* I refused, saying I would only
part with it in death, when my dear brother said — * Oh ! Mary, give it to him ; of what value
IS it?' I felt that its possession would be a mere gratification to me, and, not wishing to
discompose him by the contest, I gave it up.

** The time allowed him was now expired. He had hoped for a few days, that he
might give his friends an account of all the late events in which he had taken a part.

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187

" About S p.m. he was ordered to the place of encculion, the old Market-House, the
ground of which had been given lo the town by his great -grand lather. I look his arm, and
we walked ti^elher to the place of execution, when I was lold it was the General's orders I
should leave hitn, which I peremptorily refused lo do. Harry begged I would go. Clasping tnjr
hands around him — I did not weep till then— I said I could bear anything but leaving him.
Three limes he kissed me, and enlrealcd I would go ; and, looking round to lecognise some
friend to put me in charge of, he beckoned to a Mr. Boyd, and said, ' He will take charge of
you,' Mr. B. stepped forward, and, feariog any further refusal would disturb the last
moments of my dearest brother, I suffered myself lo be led awav. Mr. B. endeavoured to
give me comfort in Ihe hope he gave me that we should meet in heaven. A Mr. Armstrong,
a friend of Ihe family, came forward, took me from Mi. Boyd, and conducted me home. 1
immediately sent a message to Dr. M'Donnell Mid Mr. M'Cluney, an apothecary, 10 come
directly to Ihe house. The latter came, and Dr. D. sent his brother Alexander, a skilful
su^eon. The body was given up to our family unmutilated ; so &r out entreaties and those
of our friends prevailed.

" From Ihe moment I parted with Horry, the idea which had occurred to me in Ihe
morning, that it might be pos.siblc to restore animation, took full possession of my mind,
and that hope buoyed up my strength, and supported me at the moment of partiiig vith
him. Every effort that art could devise was made, and al one time bopci of taceess were
entertained; but the favDarable ^mptomi disappeared, and the attempt was at length
given up.

" I was present when the medical men entered the re
then retired and joined the rest of the family, awaiting the
My heart sank within me when we were told all ho[>c was 1
brought from the General that the funeral must take pU
would be taken from us. I'repar-'— '- '

I uhere the body was laid, and
ult with indescribable anxiety.
r, and thai a message had been
immediately, or that Ihe body
fie for immediate burial. I learned that n"

rclaiive ol Hariy'swas likely to attend the funeral. I could not bear to think that no member
of his family should accompany his remains, so I set oul to follow them to the grave.

"A kind-hearted man, an enthusiast in the cause for which poor Horry died, drew
my arm within his, but my brother John soon followed and took his place-

" I heard the sound of the first shovelful of eaith that was thrown on the coffin, and
I remember little else of what passed on that sad occasion."

Miss Mary M'Cracken thus depicts the character of her brother ; —

" Harry partook largely ol all the virtues of both his father and bia mother. From
earliest childhood he wa.s actively and daiingly courageous, amounting lo feailesaneu i
quick as thought in defending a friend, but so good*natured and ready, when al play, to
undertake anything thai occurred ihat was difficult or troublesome, that he was a univertal
favourite with his companions. He had, however, a sort of restless activity, which did not

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presage the deeply-con templalive character which was afterwards developed. He was
particularly distinguished by the utmost quickness of observation, a proof of which was, that
when the famous Bristow was here, he detected the secret of almost all his tricks, which he
successfully imitated afterwards, to the amusement of his friends. He had the utmost
presence of mind, which, added to his manual dexterity, enabled him to be eminently useful
on many occasions, particularly when any house in the town took fire, when he was always
the first, and sometimes alone, in posts of the greatest danger.

** My brother Harry was joined with a few of the industrious class in Belfast in a
Sunday-school in the old Market- House, in which writing as well as reading was taught. In
two years a young woman had learned both to read and write. They did not presume to
impart religious knowledge, but they taught their scholars how to obtain it for themselves, by
which every sect might equally profit.

'* It was afterwards found to be practised in England ; and then Mr. Bristow came to
the place of meeting with a number of ladies, with rods in their hands as badges of authority,
which put to flight the humble pioneers.

** The same parly who started the Sunday-school also instituted a cheap public library,
on becoming a member of which they advanced one guinea, afterwards half-a-guinea yearly ;
and at that time the other libraries charged most exorbitantly for some new publications. I
remember one translated from the French so much admired that there were two translations
of it, to which different names were given, and for which lod. a-night was charged, which
only the rich could afford."

Mary M Cracken said her brother gave it as his opinion that **if it had not been
for the free quarters and the flogging, there would have been no rebellion after all ; for,"
said he, **it is not ea<«y to get people to turn out of their comfortable homes, if they have
any comfort in them."

The practice in '98 of quartering soldiers on the people where disaffection prevailed,
gave opportunities, particularly in country districts, for wanton acts of tyranny and other
excesses. Persons were sometimes flogged or half hung to make them confess their own
connection with rebellious societies, or to betray others.

James Hope a weaver, one of the most energetic of the United Irishmen, and who,
in the interest of the cause, had traversed the greater part of Ireland, working at his trade
or taking up some other occupation to support himself and family while doing so, was an
active participator in the closing scenes of the '98 movement in the North. He gave valuable
infoimation to Dr. Madden for his book, The United Irishnun : their Lives and Times, Dr.
Madden thus writes — ** . . . H. J. M*Cracken was the most discerning and determined
man of all our Northern leaders, and by his exertions chiefly the union of the Societies of the

North and South was maintained I had an opportunity of knowing many of

our leaders ; but none of those I was acquainted with resembled each other in their qualities
and their principles, in the mildness of their manners, their attachment to their country,
their forgetfulness of themselves, their remembrances of the merits of others, their steadiness
of purpose, and their fearlessness, as did H. J. M 'Cracken and Robert Emmett."

The eldest brother, Frank, left for Cork to embark for Barbadoes about the latter end
of July, 1798. He proceeded thence to America. He was occupied with commercial
affairs, but his letters show that he was not much delighted with the country, nor greatly
pleased with the mode of transacting business in the United States.

The next incident to be recorded of Mary M*Cracken is an effbrl to relieve the
necessitous ; but, in the first place, it will be necessary to go back to give some account of a
person who was intimately associated with H. J. M 'Cracken during a part of the time that
he was most actively engaged in politics.

It will be remembered that Thomas Russell was one of the founders of the U. I.
Club in 1 791. He had gone to India as a lad in some military capacity. However, the
occupation only lasted five years, when he returned home. He resided several years in
Dublin, where he became acquainted with Wolfe Tone. In 1790 he obtained a commission
as ensign, and joined his ret^iment in Belfast. He was very popular, became a member of
several clubs, and was admitted to the intimacy of the leading Liberal politicians.

Through his agency Tone was invited to Belfast, introduced to the Secret Society, and
the first club of United Irishmen was formed. Russell accompanied Tone back to Dublin
to assist in establishing the Society there also.

'; An American adventurer was resident in Belfast in 179 1, who was possessed of social
talents and insinuating address. He professed democratic principles, and had managed to
insinuate himseh into the confidence of the advanced politicians.

Tone, when visiting the town, had been particularly attracted by him. This man was
arrested in the autumn of '91 for a debt of jf 200, and Russell was induced to go bail for
him, though advised not to do so. The consequence was that he was left to pay the debt,
and, not having the means otherwise, was under the necessity of selling his commission.

Life of Mary Ann M'Crackek.

He hud now no means of support ; but having some ioterest, by the end of the yeu
he w»s made a magislrate, and obtained the situation of Seneschal to the Manor Couit of
DuDgannon. In about nine months he felt himself bound, from consciEOtious feelings, to
resign his situilioo, as he had differed from his fellow-magistrates concerning the mode of
deciding questions belween Catholics and Protestant Dissenters.

l^le then returned to Belfast, where he was indebted to the kindness of a friend for
support, who, after entertaining him (or a considerable time, procured him the appointment
of Librarian to the Belfast Library. The salary was very small, and ii is difficult to under-
stand how he contrived to live on it ; perhaps he made something l>y literary pursuits. He
wrote for the Norihent Star, and other periodicals of similaj polilics. He kept up the old
intimacy with his former associates, among whom was H.J. M'Craclten. lie also occa-
donally visited Dublin. Tone mentions a Council in Dublin, Jan. 33rd, 1793, at which were
present Jas. Plunket. Ed. Sweetnian, and Thos. Russell, who agreed to a strong address to
the nation on the mbject of Qithoiic Emancipation.

In May, 1795, Russell, on (he occasion of Tone's approaching departure for America,
accompanied the latter to Emmetl's villa, where Tone's project with respect to France was
communicated, and sanclioneil by Emmelt and Russell. Tone proposed, alter taking his
family lo America, (o proceed 10 Fiance.

Russell returned to Belfast, and was followed by Tone and family on their way to the
United States, and during their visit numerous meetings of those whom we may now term
the conspirators look place.

Russell was arrested io Sept., 1796, as were also some others in Belfast. They were
taken to Dublin, where Russell remained in confinenient [ill '99, when he was sent with the
other Stale prisoners lo Fort George, where they remained till 1S02. In virtue of a com-
pact made with the Government, they were, in June of that year, permitted lo leave the
country.

Russell's father died in 1792. leaving three sons and one daughter. The latter wm
fifteen years older than Kussell, and in iSoi she was in very destitute circumstances. Mary
M'Cracken, ever ready to succour the unfortunate, proposed to ask the former friends of

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Russell to subscribe a yearly sum sufficient for her support, never doubting that they would
respond to the appeal. As there had just been a collection taken up for the prisoners at
Fort George, she was advised to delay her application, which she did for some months, and
was then only able to rabe what sufficed for immediate relief. Owing to the delay, the
application was made only a short time before Russell returned to Ireland, and she almost
got into serious trouble, for a person who got sight of the list of subscribers gave information
that she was raising money for the purchase of arms. When this became known, she was
advised to go out of the way for a time, but refused to do so, and was not further troubled.

The State prisoners, on their release, were sent to the Continent, and Russell, with
some of the others, made his way to Paris. He resided there with an old lady who had
settled in that city. Russell's brother, Capt. J. Russell, vi§ited him in Paris, and the
Captain's son-in-law, Hamilton, was also there in October. About the same time Robert
Emmett arrived at Paris from Amsterdam, where he had been visiting his brother. He was
preparing for the rebellion which took place the following year. Russell agreed to take
part in it. "They determined to listen to proposals which began to be broached at this
time, in a mysterious manner, by persons of rank and influence hitherto supposed to be covert
friends of the United Irish system, both at home and abroad."

Robert Emmett arrived in Dublin in November ; Hamilton soon followed. Shortly
afterwards he was sent back to Paris to bring Russell over. J. Hope was sent by Emmett to
a friend for a bill of ;f lOO. The greater part of this was given to Hamilton for his and
Russell's expenses.

Russell was appointed to the chief command in the North, with the title of General.
He paid a brief visit there on his first arrival, and afterwards spent a few weeks in Dublin.
He again started northward, accompanied by Hope ; Hamilton also co-operated with him.
Some proclamations were distributed. Russell met secretly with the Co. Antrim General
and some others of those who had l^een concerned in the former rebellion, and went among
the people ; but all effi>rts were fruitless ; the people would not rise, and nothing could be
done. Russell concealed himself as he could, going from one place to another in
Counties Antrim and Down till he should be able to make his way back to Dublin.
Once, while on his way from one place of concealment to another, which was the house
of a weaver in the Misses M'Cracken's employment, he ventured into Belfast and met with
the two ladies at their office, where they awaited him. He also wrote Mary several

notes, one of them asking for ;f lo, for payment of which she was to draw upon .

A woman, in whose house he had found refuge, wrote to Miss M'C. in 1843, when she was
procuring information for Dr. Madden : —

**.... All who knew Russell, knew him to be enthusiastic in the cause in
which he had embarked, but few knew so well as I did how incredulous he was as to the
hopelessness of it at that time. At first he would not believe any of the communications he
got from Belfast ; he said it was impossible ; but when he was assured from the newspapers
that Emmett was a prisoner, he was convinced. He immediately resolved to go to Dublin,
as, he said, he was certain if there he would find means to release him. . . . You your-
self provided the money that took him there. My husband got two men in Bangor to take
him round in an open boat. He gave them five guineas "

He thus got to Drogheda, and from there to Dublin, where he was shortly afterwards
taken prisoner, and sent to Downpatrick for trial.

Hamilton, after wandering about for some time, and concealing himself with difficulty,
was at length taken, and detained in prison till 1806, but was never tried.

Russell was tried in Downpatrick on the 20th October, 1803. His trial lasted from 10
a.m. till 8 p.m., and he was executed the following day. So confident had he been of the
success of the cause, that he had a letter in his pocket written in case he should fall in
battle, in which he said — " No doubt the nation would support his sister.''

In a letter to Mary M*Cracken from Russell, a few days before his trial, he wrote —
** To the more than friendship I owe you and your sister it is impossible to be sufficiently

grateful What I was engaged in with the immortal hero who has fallen, is

considered as perhaps wild ; yet I couM siow, and it wi// be showed, that the failure was
alone surprising. . . . • My intention was to have employed no counsel ; but Mr
Ramsay informs me that the other men, whose trials are to come on afterwards, may be
benefited by the cross-examination in mine, which is the first. . . ."

Mary M'Crackcn made every possible effort to save Russell. She went among her own
and hb friends to procure money for his defence ; but, in the short time at her disposal, was
unable to collect the large sum requured, and was obliged herself to raise the greater portion,
in part from her own resources, and in part by borrowing on her own responsibility.

Concerning this she wrote : —

'* . . . but the fact b, that what I did on that occasion was neither entitled to
praise or blame ; it was merely obeying a call to duty of such sacred importance that no

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person similarly situated could have resisted ; for how was it possible to shrink back when
told that human lives were at stake, which my exertions might be instrumental in saying,
and that no other person dared make the attempt ? Would it not have been to incur the
endurance of self-reproach through life? And though I had never seen or known any of the
party but Mr. Russell, yet even had he not been of the number, I would have fell it my
Dounden duty to go forward in the business, and, once having undertaken it, there was no
question of drawing back from pecuniary risk .... to save such a life as RusselPs —
one of such importance to the country — who, in the changes that were still expected, would
^lot have used every exertion to stop the effusion of blood and to prevent all possible
suffering ? Who would have hesitated to supply the means when within their reach ? There
was then no time for deliberation. As if Providence favoured the plan, we had received
near £go that day from a man whom we had sent to sell muslins through the country,
business in Dublin being quite at a stand ? Thus situated, we were led on alike from a sense
of duty and of inclination. I say we, as my sister and I had but one heart, though she
always kept in the background and left me to act— frequently on her suggestions— although
consideraljly my senior in years and much my superior in understanding. I had also a dear

enthusiastic friend, a sister of , to stimulate me, had it been necessary. Pardon my

egotism, as it is alike due to truth to disclaim either undue praise or blame. ..."

Russell has been described as a tall, handsome man, with military bearing, fascinating
address and manners, and a strong sense of religion. He was a member of the Church of
England.

Mary M'Cracken once remarked to her brother, when Russell was present — ** If you
fail, you will lose your lives." He replied — ** Whether we fail or succeed, we expect to be
the first to fall.'* Russell, interrupting, said — " But of what consequence are our lives, or
the lives of a few individuals, compared to the liberty and happiness of Ireland."

Miss Russell was quite destitute. She tried to earn something by teaching young
children, some pitying friends paying her rent, while Mary M*Cracken sent her contributions
from time to time. She lived for a time with her niece, Mrs. Hamilton, whose husband had
taken part in the rebellion; but she too was in difficulties, till, in i82i,Miss M*Cracken,
with the assistance of a friend, procured her admission into Drumcondra Retreat. In her
latter years she received assistance from her niece's son, who, in a distant land, was pursuing
an honourable career, a loyal subject, and a faithful servant of the Government against which
his uncle and his father had struggled. By remittances sent through Mary M'Cracken he
ministered to the comforts of his mother and aunt.

Mary M'Cracken continued to take an interest in many of those who had been
concerned in the rebellion, and to those who needed it she was ever ready to afford help.

A number had emigrated to the United States, either to escape being taken, to follow
near relatives who had been under the necessity of leaving the country, or because their
business had become deranged from the troubles of the time.

One family in Co. Antrim, who had been deeply implicated, and had suffered
proportionably, had been by that means brought into acquaintanceship with her. On one
occasion the youngest, a lad of 15, had gone on a night expedition with some young men.
From youth or heedlessness, he neglected to blacken his face. He was recognised, taken,
and hanged. His mother was a widow.

An elder brother escaped to the United States, where he went into business and made
some money, which, at his death, was left to his relatives in Ireland, Mary M'Cracken being
appointed executor. It was a troublesome and tedious business, for the money came in by
degrees, and, as time went on, the legatees became more numerous, and the sums smaller.
They were of the farming class, and the following extract will show that the land question
had then, as now, complications, and that the position of a go-between in money matters
is by no means desirable : —

** ij/ Dec, 1829.

"Dear Sir, — Reed- £349 15s. od. from . The remittance is come in very

good time for some of the legatees, who would otherwise have been much distressed, as from
a new regulation adopted by some of the landlords here, the poor tenants are obliged to pay
the half-yearly rent in less than a month after it falls due, which very few of them arc

prepared for. Of course they had become very impatient

" M. A. M."

The next shows how Tone's Lt/e was received by some : —

**.... Frank had got Tone's book a few days before I heard from you, and is
in great delight with it. We only got looking over a little of it, as he lent the 1st vol, as
soon as he had finished it, and is deep in the 2nd. There are various opinions respecting the
work ; some consider it trifling, and others find fault with the author for being so great an

192 Old Belfast.

eijotist, and so vain, without considering that it was not intended for the world, but for his
wife and children, to whom nothing would appear trifling that respected one so dear to
them ; and what could he have written about that would have interested them half so much
as what concerned himself ? "

Mary M^Cracken was such a thorough patriot, and had been so closely connected
with political affairs at a time when dissatisfaction with the English Government was very
general, that it is interesting to discover her feelings with respect to such things years after
the country had settled down in quietness after the sad times ot rebellion : —

**28/>4 Oct,, 1835.

*' My dear , — I send you with this the Whig of Monday, that you may see

an account of the Lord Lieutenant's visit to Belfast All present seemed quite

delighted with all they saw and heard, with very few, if any, exceptions. Some indeed
complained of the smell of the meat, others of bemg hungry ; but I was too much gratified
with the present to feel any annoyance — not merely with the gaiety of the scene, but in
looking forty years back, and in thinking, too, of those who were gone, and how delighted
they would have been at the political changes that have taken place — which could not possibly,
in their day, have been anticipated by peaceable means — and of the improved prospects of
their country, now that the English in general, and particularly the present Ministry, have
such just feelings towards Ireland and Irish people. . . . [paper torn] about a year
later the last to assist in its completion, and even five years after, Russell was still confident

of its ultimate success It was a pity that Paine's Aj^e of Reason had so soon

succeeded his Rights of Matt, as notwithstanding the latter had much effect on many of
natural good understandings, but not in the two last-mentioned, and many who had been
led astray by the infidel publication recovered from their delusion.

*• And now a better day has dawned. The old prophecy — ' That these countries should
never 1^ well ruled until a virgin queen should come to the throne ' — seems to be realised, as
there have been greater improvements in the laws since she came to the throne than for a
much longer period before ; and she is so truly amiable and feminine that she is universally
beloved."

** May, 1832.

**.... Only think of the Reform Bill being lost after all, when every one
was sure of it being passed ! It is confidently affirmed that Wellington is to be made
Minister in place of Lord Grey, whose party have all resigned, and that there is to be a
reform notwithstanding (no doubt a partial one). One can hardly wish (much as reform is to
lie desired) that Wellington should have the credit of it yet. As Harry used to say — * If
the good be done, it is no matter who gets the credit of it.'

•* The people here are much more interested in the matter than I expected they would
l)e — nothing to what they are in England ; but all, I hope, will in the end turn out for the
best."

To those who from this period could look back half-a-century, the peaceful and
settled state of the country must have compared favourably with its condition as indicated by
the following note written early in the century : —

** My dear Mrs. M*Cracken, — The pleasure we experienced last night when seated
round your social table beguiled us to so late an hour that we narrowly escaped witnessing
the horrors of a guard-room. We were stopped at the Bridge for some time ; but my father
pleaded so earnestly to allow the ladies to pass, that a sentinel (a countryman of my
mother's) permitted us to go, with the remark — ' It would indeed be a shocking thing for
young women to spend the night in a guard-house.* We joined him with some fervour you
may suppose, and drove off, leaving my father and George with the soldiers. They followed
in an hour ** *

** Mount Pottinger."

It seemed best not to interrupt the political record, so that we must now go back a
little. In the year 181 3 Mary M'Cracken suffered from a tedious and painful complaint,
which had lasted many months, and in the summer of that year she was advised to go to a
Spa for its relief. She chose Ballynahinch as being the nearest, although informed that
some other might be more speedily efficacious ; but she wished to be where she could be
quickly summoned home, should necessity arise, as her mother was then aged and in
precarious health (her father had died in 1 803), and business anxieties caused her concern.

She returned with her health almost re-established. Her mother died the following
year, and not long afterwards the sisters quitted business, on which occasion she thus
writes : —

Life of Mary Ann M'Cracken. 193

" My dear Mrs. , — I hope you do not impute my silence and seeming neglect

to unkindness or indifference. I have, indeed, been daily thinking of you, and reproaching
myself for not writing to you these several months past ; but my time has been so entirely
occupied, and my mind so perplexed in winding up our affairs, that we may quit a business
in which all who have been engaged these two years past have lost heavily, that I could not
command a tranquil half-hour m the four-and -twenty, and now that we are getting clear by
degrees, I trust that the little which we got by my dear mother will enable us to pay all we
owe, which is a great comfort, even if we should have nothing left. Doubtless, if riches
would have contributed to our ultimate happiness, they would have been bestowed on us ;
and while Providence is pleased to bless us with health and a capacity for industry, we should
be thankful and contented ; but the sphere of a woman's industry is so confined, and so few
roads lie open to her, and those so thorny, it is difficult to fix on any. . . ."

In a printed bill setting forth the grievances of the weavers, but undated, the following
passage occurs : —

** But to the great credit of the Miss M*Crackens, they kept the set on full six months
after the rest took it off ; and if they were under the necessity of^ paying them in notes, they
always paid the discount with it. "

The elder Miss M*Cracken was a good housekeeper in every sense of the word, and
their orphan niece was becoming able to assist ; so that household occupations did not afford
to the younger sister scope for her irrepressible energy. She soon became engaged in what
was from this time forth her life work — labouring for the poor.

She thus wrote : —

** My dear , — Ever since I received yours of 7th I have daily intended

writing to you, but was obliged to delay it from day to day owing to want of time. I have
allowed my out-of-door avocations to increase so much, that I have less command of time
now than when I was occupied with business. I am not sure whether that is quite right or
not. I fear that undertaking too many things prevents me from doing anything as it ought
to be ; but somehow one gets entangled unawares, and cannot draw back, particularly if they
think that they are usefully employed."

Of charitable institutions, the one with which she was connected from her earliest
years, and which she continued to visit as long as strength permitted, was the ** Old Poor-
house," or ** Belfast Charitable Society." The building of this house was commenced in
1 77 1, and of it she wrote when more than 90 years of age : —

** There were no men in Belfast esteemed more highly than my two uncles, and I
believe they were very deserving of the high opinion the public entertained of them. They

were both very charitable ; but their feelings were exercised in different ways

My uncle Robert was one year younger than my uncle Harry. He projected our * Old
Poorhouse,* the first in Belfast, for a shelter for the poor. Before that time, rich men who
were charitable would leave large sums to be distributed to the poor by their clergymen,
lists of which are now to be seen hung round in the hall of our Old Poorhouse at the head of
Donegall Street. My uncle Robert paid his last visit to it, when unable to walk, in a sedan
chair. From its erection, as long as health was spared him, it had been his constant study to
promote the comfort of the inmates in every respect. The husband and wife were not
separated, but had curtains round their bed ; and he studied to give them variety of food, and
in various ways to promote an increase to the means of support, one of which was a shower-
bath, and anyone, by paying one guinea a-year, might use it whenever they pleased. The
room that is now the girls' school-room was then a ball-room, in which there was a ball once
a-month, and for some time concerts once a-fortnight, by the band of the 1st Volunteer
Company ; but one of the members having died of consumption, which was attributed to
his playing on a wind instrument, the music was discontinued, but the dancing for some
time went on.

*' My father had a garden in the neighbourhood, and as soon as I could walk, my
mother took me with her to the garden, and we often visited the Poorhouse.

" Bab was my most beloved cousin, nine months younger than I. She was very

benevolent, and most usefully so About our Old Poorhouse children, she said

she never was mufHing her own children on a Sunday morning that she did not think of the
Poorhouse little girls. At that period there was but one public collection in the year for
our old Poorhouse, and the girls had no additional clothing to what they wore in the house
in winter. It was scarcely so much, for in the house they had a bedgown which came up to
the neck ; but in going to the Meeting-house or Church they wore a frock made of linen,
woven in the house, and dyed a drab colour, the sleeves of which did not cover the elbow,
and did not come above the shoulder. All the additional clothing they had was a small
single calico shawl. The way Bab undertook to obtain funds was to go about asking
only for the small sum of lod., which she thought nobody would refiise ; but many might
not wish to have their names for a small sum when the one next it might perhaps be

194

Old Belfast.

for luECi and those who wished to give liberally might give as much as ihey pleased in the
□unea of all theii family or any names ihey chose. There was only one man in all Belfast
who refused, and the whole amounted to £g. The thickest and strongest green stuff which
could be got was purchased and cut out. The froclcs had long sleeves down to the wiists,
and they were made up by various young ladies. It was suggested that as straw bonnets
were expensive, it would be better to have the giils taught to plat the straw and make the
bonnets, which would be a means of sujjport for them when they should leave the house.

We followed this advice, and found that it answered very well.

The following, written in 183S, tells of her long
and also gives her ideas on a much-disputed qucsti

with another Institution,

ive perused twice very carefully ; and I regret to find, that although
s of your sermon in which I perfectly agree with you, yet there are
others which appear in such a very different point of view to you from what they do to me.

UNE, 1798.

that I could not conscientiously undertake to disseminate the work. A variety of circum-
stances contribute to the formation of our opinions, and when they become matured and
conlirmed for a number of years they are not easily overturned. There ate some things,
however, in which, though we disagree, our opinions lead nearly to the same results.
Believing, as 1 do, in the immediate superintendence of an inlinitel)' wise and good
Providence, I must so far acknowledge that monaichs reign by Divine appointment so long

i shall bring about

IS they are permitted to reign ; and tliough I think that there are many evils under which «
live, I do not think we are thereby authorised to take up arms oga' "

but consider it a duty to wait with patience till the great Ruler of all e'
a change through the progress of public opinion.

" I have been visiting the I.ancasterian School for the last twenty-five years, generally
once a-week, and I find the children taught there for the last two or three years much better
acquainted with the Scriptures than the scholars of any former period. The master is certainly

Life of Mary Ann M'Cracken. 195

a very superior man, whose heart and soul is devoted to the business ; and so well is the school
conduct^, that, although they have enough of Catholic Bibles and Testaments, yet the Catholic
children, when sent to the press to take books for themselves, generally take the Protestant
translation of their own accord, and there never is a word of disagreement among them.
The extracts they read at the schools, should they see no more of the Scriptures there,
would tend to excite their curiosity to read the whole. Those whose parents and guardians
permit, have access to the entire volume ; and I remember when pious Protestants would have
considered it a profanation of the sacred volume to see it made a common school-book of,
and our religious feelings were quite shocked to hear it all read and half the words spelled.
It was required to be read in a serious and solemn manner, as if felt and understood. "

In the Famine year, 1847, an association was formed for the relief of the poor, and an
industrial school for girls established, being ** the first Ragged School in Ireland." The
Frederick Street building (then unused, except for the Sunday School) was granted for the
purpose. In the twentieth report, dated 17th March, 1867, is written : —

** We have to record this year the death of a beloved friend and associate in our work.
Miss M'Cracken, who was connected with the school from its foundation, and whose place
was never vacant at our weekly meetings as long as she was able to attend.

** We know not how to speak of the worth that no words can express, and the loss too
little felt, perhaps because it came so gradually. But though the loss may never be repaired,
we trust she has left a precious legacy that will never perish from this place of her habitation,
in the memory of a life so rich in all good works, and a spirit so full of love.

*' When we would think of ' those things that are pure, and lovely, iand of good report,'
let us remember her who was so lone among us, her ardent charity, her large and tender
sympathy, her sweet humility and selMorgetfulness."

In the forty-seventh report of the Belfast Ladies' Clothing Society, 1867 — " the late
Miss M'Cracken was a most energetic collector of its funds."

For the Destitute Sick Society she collected, and sometimes took part in visiting and
distributing ; but she used to say the ladies would not let her visit, for she would give too
much, and would tell of cases in which she had b^en imposed upon. It was a hard trial for
her to refuse any who seemed in distress.

She was one of an association to prevent the employment of climbing-boys in chimney-
sweeping, and was long a member of an anti-slavery society. She abstained from sugar for
many years, which must have been a great privation, as she was fond of it. But it would
be tedious to enumerate all the public associations in which she took part, and her private
charities were innumerable. Besides giving freely to people in necessitous circumstances, she
collected money for various private cases of distress. There was one family for whom she
was constrained again and again to solicit aid. yet so disagreeable was the task, that she has
said she felt it sometimes a reprieve when told that the person for whom she had asked was
not at home. She was for many years a total abstainer, and recommended the practice
to others, particularly the young ; but, tolerant in that as in everything else, she would not
seek to prohibit stimulants to elderly people who had been accustomed to use them, and
thought they were required. To such people she would even, with old-fashioned hospitality,
offer them.

She took an interest in everything which she believed to be for the good of her fellow-
creatures, and all that might serve to promote the welfare of her native land.

Mr. Edward Bunting, the collector and publisher of Irish tunes, had come as a lad to
Belfast, where he long resided. He was a close friend of her younger brother, and very
intimate in the family. She warmly encouraged him in his work, both when, at the close
of last century, he was entrusted with the charge of a publication of Irish music, and at a
subsequent period when, on his own account, he travelled about the country collecting
tunes, which he afterwards arranged and published. She regarded this preservation from
oblivion of an evidence of an ancient civilisation as a patriotic work.

For many years she was accustomed to spend the mornings in some out-of-door occu-
pation — collecting for some charity, attending some meeting, visiting the poor, or in paying
friendly visits. After dinner, she took a nap in her chair by the fire, a position she much
preferred to lying on a sofa. She would awake refreshed, and her evenings were frequently
occupied in letter-writing, as she had a large correspondence.

She was, however, always ready to engage in friendly converse, for she greatly enjoyed
social intercourse, or even to attend a public meeting until a late period of life. She was
light and active, enjoyed good health, and was able to take a good deal of exercise.

She was a regular attendant on the ordinances of religion, had been brought up in con-
nection with the Third Presbyterian Congregation, and the greater part of her life took part
in the services and engaged in all the charitable work of the congregation. For a short time
she attended a nearer church, but impaired hearing and failing strength soon caused that to
be given up.

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Old Belfast.

She was a conslant reader of the Scriptures, enjoying most the devotional portions and
the simple gospel narratives. Id hei latter years, when Diemoiy was somewhat railing, she
seemed always to lum to that portion of John's gospel contained between the I4lh and 17th
chapters. She frequently spoke of Ihem. and ol the parable of the "good Sajnaritan,"
who. though his religion was mingled with error, acted up to the little light he had. as tbe
better-instructed Jews failed 10 do. and was commended for his love and active hcnevolence^

She taught for many years in a Sunday School held in Frederick Street Schoolhoose.
which was conducted on the systeni of being unconnected with any church, and having
leathers of different Prolestant denominations. She even contbued her attendance for some
time after removing to a considerable distance.

A Komon Catholic servant who lived in the house for many years she taught la read
and write, and when sufficiently lat advanced she bought her a Douay Bible, and every
eveninE one or two chapters were read, each with her own Bible.

In personal haiiits she was scrupulously clean, but indifferent about her dress, unwilling
10 spend money on it, and gave it little thought.

She liked to read the newspaper, and always spent some time in doing ao, but for
other reading she had little leisure. When she did read a novel or heat one read, it wai
lo others as preat a treat as the book to hear het comments, how she entered into the slot;
and discussed the characlera with such thorough enjoyment, such child-like feeling of reality.
In her later years she used to relate anecdotes of family and local incidents, and re "■—-"""
other youthful days; these, told in her lively and pleasant manner, we'- "'<"
pleasure. Sometimes, but more rarely, and usually when she had only or
speak of the graver and sadder events in which she had been cancemedj hut evideittly with
EUch sorrowful remembrance that a listener had
theme, intensely interesting though it might be.

She was accustomed to say that people ought not to pride themselves on thelrai .,

and should not be valued for what Iheit forefathers had been or done, but only for what they
themselves are, and would quote the lines or

Life of Mary Ann M*Cracken. 197

Nevertheless, she took most unmistakable pride and pleasure in some of the doings
of her ancestors. The way in which she used to relate anything which gave evidence of a
generous and unselfish description was not to be forgotten by those who heard her.

She had naturally a quick and hasty temper, though evidence of this was rarely seen ;
but even when at an advanced age, if a helpless person were wronged, or an animal cruelly
treated, it was startling to see how her eye woula flash, and to hear her hot, indignant words.

She had a talent for figures, which developed early, and it is recorded that she sur-
prised older people by doing difficult sums before she was able to write down the figures.
Sufficient money passed through her hands to keep this talent in exercise. She retained her
fondness for calculations, but seemed to dwell on the details, and did not appear to take a
mental grasp of a financial affair in its entirety. She would take into consideration a sum of
money, reckon several things it would do, and then apparently conclude it might be sufficient
for all. This may, however, have been only when she was past her prime ; but she was so
much more able for a number of things than many younger women, that people were apt to
forget she had come to an age when mental vigour usually declines, particularly as she
herself felt the elasticity of youth. An old and intimate friend rallied her on this subject in
one of his letters in 1841 — '* We had a good laugh at your expense in reading that part of
your epistle where you say * w^ middle-aged women.' This for an old lady of 70 years is
pretty well (meaning yourself). Indeed, you are so strong and healthy, I don't wonder at
your claiming the title of middle-aged, though the years on your head are against the
assumption."

Her decay was very gradual. She was compelled by degrees to give up her accus-
tomed occupations, till at last she was confined to the house. Walk for walking's sake she
would not. As she became unable for other work, she took up the occupation of knitting.
Her sight was wonderfully good ; her hearing was so much impaired as to prevent her taking
part in general conversation ; but she was always able to converse with one person com-
fortably for both. She delighted in seeing a large party round the table, and when a laugh
went round, she with beaming face and happy smile would join in the mirth, and some-
times say — "Well, I don't know what you are laughing at, but I like to see you enjoying
yourselves."

In the autumn of 1865 she had an attack of bronchitis, from which she recovered, but
mind and body had become weak. She faded peacefully and gently away, apparently con-
tented and happy, without weariness or pain, until, after some hours of unconsciousness, she
breathed her last on the 26th of July, 1866, having completed her 96th year on the 8th of
the month.

It was supposed by many that Miss M'Cracken possessed many interesting documents
connected with the Rebellion. This belief was not shared by those who had heard her
lament the loss of some relics of that sad time.

Still, it was disappointing to find, on examining her papers, an almost total absence of
anything of the sort. This is accounted for by the fact that any she had formerly had she
had entrusted to people who proposed to write a history of the time, or given to relatives
who she believed had a better right to them.

She lent some manuscripts to a man named M*Skimin, who had written a history
of Carrickfergus, and proposed writing a more pretentious work. Except perhaps in some
contributions to one of the ephemeral periodicals of the day, the papers were not used, as
the proposed book never was published, and they were not returned to Miss M*Cracken,
though she made frequent applications for them, till she lost sight of the man. It is an
evidence of her liberality and toleration that she knew M'Skimin to be a strong opponent
of the political party with which she was connected. Indeed, James Hope, a United Irish-
man who knew him (both were weavers, and mainly self-educated men), described him as
almost a monomaniac on the subject.

There were other persons who obtained documents from her, among whom was Mr.
Teeling, who wrote a narrative, and also articles which were published in pamphlets or
periodicals. To Dr. Madden she gave what remained ; he also obtained some of those Mr.
Teeling had, and she procured for him much information from others.

Towards the close of Miss Mary Ann M*Cracken's life, friends requested of her that
she would write her remembrances. She endeavoured to comply with their repeated solici-
tations ; but, while remembering past events, and able to relate them, she had from failing
memory lost the power of composing a sustained narrative, and never got beyond pre-
liminaries. Besides, little of what she wrote was of the kind desired, for she was the least
egotistical of human beings, and could not be made to understand that it was her very own
individual experiences in which her friends were especially interested.

Talking lately with a friend, we regretted that the request had not been made sooner ;
but most probably it would have been equally without avail, as hers was a busy life. As
long as she was able she was constantly employed, principally in works of chaxity, and a
great part of her evenings or other spare time was occupied in letter-writing.

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BRANTRY FRIARV.

IHE Friary of Brantry, so often alluded to in the following manuscript,

1 O'Mellan the aulhor being one of its members, was situate in a small

I territory of that name in the townland of Gort-tamlaght-na-mQck, now

simply called Gorl, lying on the south-east of the Barony of Dungan-

non, in the County of Tyrone. The larger territory of Munterbime*

lies lo the south. The name Brantryt is still preserved as that of a new district

iiarish formed out of the parishes of Clonfecle, Aghaloo, and Camteel. Gort itself
ormed part of the Manor of Caslan, granted lo Tirlagh O'Neale of that place by
James t., 9th December, in the I2lh year of his reign. The principal part of this
estate was afterwards under the Act of Settlement passed to Lord Caulfield. In
that townland, about four miles south-west of Uungannon and three miles east of
Camteel, in the bosom of an almost perfect amphitheatre, surrounded by vast hills to
the east, south, and west, and within the last 80 years having a dense wood crest-
ing the north, lies the "Friary Lough," shaped lilte a rose leaf, where, on a knoll
or natural breastwork a few perches south of the lake, and lying under and
sheltered by Gort Hill, stood the old Friary. Banished from their parent house
in Armafjh, the expelled friars, under the protection of Ihe O'Neills of Castletown,
chose this lovely and secluded spot as their new homestead, and erected a house
with proper dormitories, chapel, &c., as also a small brewery at a little distance,
the site of which is still called the Brewery Field. To the west stretch the hills of
Carrowcashel, where tradition points out a ravine, in which, in periods of great per-
secution, the Friars celebrated Mass. To the east, in the townland of Urum-
namonless, is a high hill called Stoney Batter, running precipitately to the lough,
covered with boulders of freestone and immense tracts of wild gorse ; while south-
ward is Gort Hill, terraced to the top, a plateau crowned with an earthen fort, flat
and bald-like, from which apparently it derived the name, Sliabh-na-maol, the bald
or ffiiu7fi/ mountain. It is far and away the highest hill in the district, and on a
clear day a circuit of forty miles can be embraced by the naked eye, taking in
Lough Neagh, and portions of the counties of Down, Armagh, Fermanagh, and the
mountains of Donegal and Derry. Tradition reports that when the friars were at
length and suddenly compelled to abandon their new home, they sank their most
costly and sacred vessels in the lough, and, since that, various but fruitless attempts
have been made by the neighbouring peasantry to recover these buried treasures.
On one occasion a peasant lad fished up a silver chalice, and numerous other relics
of antiquity have been found from lime to time. It is said that after the Crom-
wellian dispersion the surviving friars, with new brethren, returned to the old house
of their adoption.

J. W. H.

• Now Hinleibum.— Editor.

HE chiefs formed a plan to seize upon all the OnobCT,i64i.
fortified towns and strong places of tlie English
and Scotch throughout Ireland in one night.
The day fixed was Friday, being the last day
of the moon. First, as to Dublin, there went
there from the province of Ulster, Lord Ennis-
killen (Conor Maguire M'Brian M'Conor, etc.),
and Hugh Og M'Brian M'Hugh Og M'Hugh
M'Shane Boy (buitie), and M'Mahon and Rory
O'More from Upper Orior (Oiiice.\]i iiacca]u\c). There were
likewise some from Meath, from Lcinster, and from Munster, &c.
But the plot was betrayed by Owen Connolly:' the gate of Dublin,
(<\t ctiAc:) was closed, the city bells were rung, and the houses were
searched. M'Mahon and the Earl of Enniskillen' were taken : the
rest made their escape.

Sir Fclim O'Neill was chosen General in the province of Ulster,
that is, M'Turlough M'HenryOg M'Henry M'Shane M'Quin M'Henry

was resolved :— "That Owen Connolly, who
\ooi. presenily paid biin, and tool, wr annum
a gmLier Value, and la be recomiicnded lo
there." (See Nalson's Impartial Ca/ltdiim,

I. In the House of Commons. Nov., 1641,
discavered ihis Great Treason in Ireland, shall ha
Pension unlill Provision be made of Inheritance
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (or same Prefemi
1683, ii. p. 524.}-;. S.

a. Ma^ire was only Baron of Enniskillen. (See Cule'i Ornondt. i. p. 156. and Nalson's
Impartial ColltclioH. ii. p. BBS.) M'Mahon was eiecuied. aand Nov.. 1644; Maguire, aaih Feb.,
1645. (See Linfianl's England, viii. p. 4>'} Before suffering al Tybum lh?y escaped from the
Tower of London, and were in hiding for some time in Dtury Lane, where they were re-taken.
(See, for ibcir adventures, the British Officer's Irish iVarrofrb^i, pp. 11, la : and Sanderson's
CampUat Hillary o/lhi LifenMd ftaigiu of King Charlts.^. 768.)— J. S.

202 Old Belfast.

M*Owen, &c. He took Charlemont (Se|AtiTnonc) and the Governor
of the town, Lord Caulfield, and all who were there from him down-
wards.* Dungannon COungeAnnuin) was taken, and its Captain,
namely Parsons, and all the inhabitants from him down, by Randal
M*Donnell (tTlAc*OotTinAitl), that is, the son of Ferdoragh (THac ati P]a
T)oi\cAe) M*Owen, &c., and by Patrick 111ot)A)\]\a (the gloomy)
O'Donnelly.* The great garrison of Mountjoy (tTluinj'eox;)^ was
seized, with all the soldiers, by Captain Turlough gpuAnroA (grim)
0*Quin, and Lord Caulfield's Castle in Ballydonnelly (b^ite i -oonn-
toite) was taken by Patrick ItloxxxpitA (the gloomy) O'Donnelly.
The manor house of Moneymore® (TTIinnne m6]\), that is. Sir
John Clotworthy's town, was seized on by the Governor Cormac
O'Hagan, and Mr. V (i:iii)^lei]\) town, in Killeter (Coitt

loccApAij), that is, Ballyscullion (bAile in c]^Aliinn), was taken by
Felim gpuAm-oA (the grim or morose) O'Neill M*Felim the dumb
(b<\tb).® The garrison of Liscallaghan (tio)^ ceAttACAn) was taken
Oct. 23, 1641. • • • Donnell M*Shane of the curses (riA mAltAcc)^ and by . . .
and the English soldiers who were in it were captured. The strong
garrison town of Tandragee (Uon ]\e gAeich) was taken by Patrick Og
O'Hanlon, and he was killed himself the same day.^® Newry(An.
ciub<\t\) was seized by Con Magennis (IllAc^Aongu^^A), that is, the son
of Lord Iveagh (IbcA^Ac), and also the great castle." Dundalk
(f]\Acboite loiin'oelgAn) was taken by the Lieutenant General Brian
M*Hugh Boy (ao-o bm-oe) O'Neill MTurlough M*Henry Na Garthan
(riA 5A]\tAn) and by the clan of Hugh (Clannaboy).

3. Sir Phelim ONeill was on a visit of hospitality to Lord Caulfield's seat at Charlemont
when he seized it. (See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 172.) On all subsequent occasions O'Mellan

calls Charlemont by its /rtsA name, ^\cAt) Atl X)A. CAtAAt), i.e., " the field of the two weirs."

— J. S. Some vestiges of the old earthworks are still visible. — Editor.

4. Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 172) and all the later historians represent Sir Phelim O'Neill as
seizing Dimgannon himself.— J. S.

5. Captain Blaney commanded the garrison at the time. (See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 172.)
tn I1in]"e05 represents •• Mountjoy " moderately well. O'Clery {Life of Hugh O' Donnell, pp.
232, 278) makes an attempt at this English name, in a combination of Irish and Roman characters

— TTIoncyoy and thouncioy.— J. s.

6. See Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, i. p. 312, note 18. — J. W. H.

7. Bellaghy or Castledawson. — J. W. H. [This blank is filled in as Mr. " Fuisler's town,"
in a quotation from this Journal in the Rev. Geo. Hill's Montgomery MSS. (p. 152). Query
''Whistler" ? DAlLe, a town, often implies no more than a seat or residence. — J. S.]

8. A better rendering of b^Lb would be the "Stammerer." Elsewhere it is the one
adopted by the translator. Compare the Latin balbus and balbutiens. — J. S.

9. By an Inquisition at Augher, 22nd Sept. , i Charles I. , Donald M' Shane Mallatt O'Neal le,
formerly of Shraghgrom, in P. of Donaghmore. B. of Dungannon, died 9th April, 1616, seized of
Shraghgrom. Eugene M' Donnell M 'Shane Mallatt O'Nealle was his son and heir, and 30 years
of age.— J. W. H.

10. Tandragee was held at this time by a troop of Lord Grandison's horse under Captain
St. John. (See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 172 ) The O'Hanlons (O'h-Anluain) possessed East and
West Orior, Co. Armagh. (See the Lea,bhar na g-Ceart, or Book of Rights, p. 148. ) They were
the ancient hereditary royal standard-bearers of Ireland north of the Boyne, an office claimed by
Col. O'Hanlon, and ceded, when George IV. came to Ireland, in 1821. (See C Daly's Tribes of
Ireland, p. 62. ) — ^J. S.

11. Sir Arthur Tyringham was its governor. (See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 172.) There were
70 barrels of gunpowder there when the place was seized. (See Nalson's Impartial Collection, ii.
p. 516.)— J. S.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 203

On Sunday was taken Desert Martin (loipopc mApcAin) and the Oct. 24,1641.
manor house of Magherafelt (TTlACAipe ]\6. po5<\x)) by the Governor
Cormac O'Hagan."

Armagh (^)\x)mACA) was seized by the General Sir Felim. There Oct 26, 1641.
were a good many English in the great Cathedral, and plenty of
provisions with them. They could have defended themselves,
but they surrendered.

Sir Felim made an expedition to Bellaghy (b^ite AchA-o). He Nov., 1641.
sent a messenger to demand the town from Mr. Conway" (ConpAig),
but he refused to capitulate. The town was then entirely burnt, to-
gether with the haggarts. The master at length surrendered, on
condition of being sent safe across the Bann to Massarccne (tT1<\f a
jiegnA). Then were burnt the Court of Bellaghy and the town of Sir
William Nugent (nuinn|^e]A), and on the same day the court of
Magherafelt.

We shall now make some mention of Colonel Reilly, that is, Nov. 29, 1641.
Philip M*Hugh M*Shane Roe. The O'Reillys, on crossing the Boyne,
received information that a party of soldiers were coming from Dublin
to Drogheda. Philip fell in with them at Julianstown (bAite giotlAn),
and although his men were but indifferently armed, he attacked them,
and actually killed 700 of the enemy without losing a man. Having
obtained a supply of arms and ammunition, the fruit of this day's
exploit, they placed a guard on the bridge of Drogheda until the
coming of the ensuing spring.

Charles Coote, the accursed scourge and merciless persecutor of May, 1641.
the Gaels, fell in the town of Trim** (bAile a^a cpuim). It is not
known by whom he was slain, whether friend or foe. Also the bloody ?Feb., 1641.
tyrant Simon Harcourt, knight and third commander of his regiment
(cui-oeAcc), was wounded at the White Rock (CAppuic mbAine), and

12. Inquisition at Augher, 22nd Sept., i Charles I., Eugen Oge O'Hagan M'Owen Evistan,
formerly of Moneymore, parish of Derry (?), B. of Dungannon, died 4th Nov., 1622, seized in his
lordship of Mullenecor (now ) and Aghnecreagh (now ). Cormac O'Hagan.
his son and heir, being then 22 years old and married. — J. W. H.

["Mullenecor" is " Mullinagore," near Dungannon, entered in Ambrose Leet's exhaustive
Directory to the Market Towns, tillages, 5fc., in /re/and {p. 303), as then (1814) in the possession
of Thomas Hamilton, Esq. " Aghnecreagh" I fail to trace. — J. S.]

13. ' ' Mr. Conway " was Henry Conway. The following is the account of this transaction given
by the late Charles H. O'Neill in his Papers on the O'Neill of Clanaboy from the MSS. depositions
of the Revd. Chas. Anthoney of Bellaghy, dated 12th June, 1642, in Trinity College, Dublm. Mr.
Anthony stated "that on the breaking out of the rebellion in 1641, the mhabitants of Bellaghy
rose in arms for their own defence by the persuasion of Henry Conway, Esq. , who lived in the
Castle. The inhabitants repaired to the Castle, and several of Magherafelt likewise. Henry
Conway obliged all these to take the oath of allegiance. That Conway was playing a double
game, for, while he appeared resolved in these preparations, he carried on secretly a correspond-
ence with Anthony O'Mullan and the O'Hagans, all of whom were rebels. The object was that
he, Conway, might be permitted to carry oflf certain valuables without molestation if he would
deliver up the Castle. A parley was held, Mr. Thomas Dawson acting for the besieged, and
O'Hagan and Sir Phelim O Neil for the rebels, in which it was agreed to deliver up the Castle on
condition of marching out with liberty and goods, but that, as soon as Conway had got off with
his trunks, the rest were plundered, and the town and Castle burned. — J. W. H.

[See the Rev. Geo. Hill's Montgomery MSS. p. 155.— J. S.]

14. Coote was killed, 7th May, 1642, at Trim. (Lodge : Peerage, ii. p. 67.) — J. W. H.
[Of Coote, Prendergasl tells us {Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, p. 58) — "His soldiers

had orders to spare no infants above a span long." Carte (Ormonde, i. p. 318) says — "The
manner of his death was variously reported, and it remained uncertain whether the fatal shot came
from the enemy or frcm one of his own troopers." — J. S. Coot« was made a free Stapler of
Belfast in 1640. See Town Book of Belfast, p. 248 and note.— Editor.]

204 Old Belfast.

died the following day, breathing forth blasphemies against God and
the Saints."
June24, 1641. The Catholics took the fort of Limerick, which was in the

possession of King Charles.
March, 1641. A party of Catholics had an engagement with the enemy at

?Feb., 1641. Killsallaghan (Cill SAujAinn), where Captain Rochford was killed,
together with several officers and a great many soldiers of his regiment,
and they were forced against their will to go back to Dublin.^*

The persons who held the situation of Justices, at this time, in
Dublin, were Sir William Parsons, Master of Chancery, and Sir John
Borlase, two brutes without feeling or mercy.

Colonel Reilly collected together all the English from Cavan,
Ballyhayes, Belturbet, and any other towns throughout that part of
the country, and sent them all under an escort to Drogheda.

Colonel Reilly besieged Croaghan^' (C^iuacau trnc UijeAiwiAin)
and Kileigh" (Cilt acato), where there were collected 500 persons.
They remained thus under blockade for 1 3 weeks, during which time
300 persons died. Then Sir James Craig and Sir Francis Hamilton
and the remaining 200 capitulated, and were all sent off to Drogheda.

A party of 140 horse came from Trim and succeeded in taking
great quantities of plunder. Mulmurray MacEmuinn was near
the place with 33 horsemen, and perceiving the Creaghts flying he
pursued the plunderers. He came up with the troop of cavalry at
(-A5 hoy n A hcA-oAiAti AToe), and, hearing the noise of the fight, he rushed
in on them and compelled them to retreat, and the very last man of
them was killed entering the gate of Maperath (]\ac An niApAoi).
Captain Carson was taken.

An army was raised by Sir Charles Vavasour in Ormond, to take
the town called Cloghleigh'* (cloc tiAc). The town was surrendered
to him, the garrison having a bad supply of provisions. They took

15. — Sir Simon Harcourt was mortally wounded in March, 1642. at the attack on Carrick-
mines Castle, Co. Dublin. (See Prendergast's Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, p. 57). — J. S.

16. In a letter written by " Ed. Loftus," dated Feb. 27. 1641-2, ordered to be printed by
the English Parliament, 7 March, this event is thus given — "The Rel^els were gathered at Kil-
shalgham, within seven miles of Dublin, above 2.000 men, where they were setled in a verie
strong wood. My Lord of Ormond carried out part of our Armie and beat them out of that
great strength (for they would nott come into the champaine), and killed above a hundred of them,
without any considerable losse of our side, onely Captain fames Rochford, a most gallant and
courageous Gentleman."— J. W. H. There is some discrcf)ancy in several of the dates here. —
Editor.

[The Irish, under Hugh Byrne and MacThomas, numbered 3,000 men at " Killsalghen," as
Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 283) calls it.— J. S.]

17. Croaghan, near Killeshandra. — J. CD. [This was the place where the O'Rourke was
inaugurated Prince of Breffny. See the Four Af asters, iv. p. 808. — ^J. S.]

' • Croaghan. " There is a townland of this name, otherwise Coolnashmny (Ordnance Sheet 19),
Parish of Kildallon, Co. Cavan, containing a Presbyterian Meeting-house ; the river of the same
name runs through the Parish. Another townland of the name lies in the Parish of Muntercon-
naught, Barony of Castlerahan, in same county (Ord. Sheets 39-43). — ^J. W. H.

18. In the precinct of TuUaghconche (now the Barony of TuUaghonoho. Co. CavanJ Sir
James Craigg, Kt., held the proportions called Drumheda and Kilagh, on which there was built
a Bawn with a strong and large Castle. (See Pynnar's Survey, in Harris's Hibemica, p. 154.) —
J. W. H.

19. Cloghleigh, P. of Kilworth, Co. Cork. (See Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland^
ii, p. 220 ; also Smith's Cork, \. pp. 140, 143 ; Lodge's Peerage, i. 297 ; and Carte's Ormonde^
i. p. 431. 1 — ]. W. H.

[Cloghleigh was surrendered 3rd June, 1643, according to Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 431. — J. S.]

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 205

quarter on condition of their lives being spared : but this condition
was not adhered to, for 80 of them were executed. A number of
Munster-men came to succour the town and their friends, but to their
astonishment found the place burnt. They then attacked Sir Charles's
people with such fury that they did not leave, out of 3,000, more than
about 300 ; and they took their Colonel prisoner.

For love of this Charles, the daughter of the Earl of Cork, Sir
Richard Boyle, gave a bottle of poison to her own husband, that is,
the great Barry (DA]\t\Ac mop).

The forces of Lord Moore and Richard Grenville, amounting to 1642.
4,000 men, surrounded the Court and Castle of Gerald Lacy* (t^eijif)
while Gerald himself was absent. Only 30 men formed the garrison
of the Castle : yet, in the course of five days they killed 700 of the
enemy. The lady of the town and her family received quarter. The
garrison collected together all the plate, brass, iron, guns, clothes,
wheat, and other valuable things into the Court and burnt them. The
besiegers now pressed round the Bawn, and broke down the iron gate.
At first one of them came in and demanded a pistol from one of the
garrison. " Here it is," said he, when immediately the fellow shot him
with two bullets through the breast. Upon this the rest were seized,
and bound two and two ; one young man, however, though severely
wounded in the scuffle, contrived to escape from them, and made his
way to the Castle of (Co CAi]^len Uiocaiii-o SI nA]\). Thus,

then, were 29 soldiers put to death. In the County Louth, Lord
Moore caused to be put to death 1 50 persons, between men, women,
and children.

At the instigation of the daughter of George Garlan, 248 persons
were killed by the garrison of Dundalk (b^ile trnc buAin), along with
the Parish Priest, Turlogh M*Rory ; and yet all these had previously
received quarter from Lord Moore.

The Earl of Ormond and a body of Catholics met in battle at
Morva. The heretics were routed and one cannon was taken. Colonel
Cullen (Cuitui]\) and Colonel Preston were made prisoners, and many
were slain on both sides.^* The Irish came that night to Ross^ (pof
mic U]\iuin), and on the morrow the enemy came after them to the
same place ; Colonel Fox attacked them with five muskets, so sharply
that they fled and deserted their camp. Behold them in full flight
from us to Dublin !

A detachment under Lord Moore made an incursion on pA]AtAioo
of Meath, and in revenge burnt their houses, Kells, and four mills
situated on the river near it. Upwards of 60 people were killed in the
French mill (ITIinllionn riA P]\<\nc<\i5). Robert Cusack received
quarter, but was killed immediately after by order of Sir Henry Tich-
bourne CUiot'boi]\n), and also his son without any order.

20. Qu. Lacy, Qu. Lynch's Knock, Co. of Meath, now Summerhill.— J. W. H.

21. Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 405) mentions that Capt. Cullen was made a prisoner in this
engagement. March 18th, 1643, but says nothing about Preston's capture.— J. S.

22. In Co. Wexford.— J. O'D. [New Ross, Co. Wexford, has this name— not Old Ross in
the same county. See the Four Masters, iv. pp. 731-2.— J. S.]

2o6 Old Belfast.

Observe here, that from the first till the sixth year of the war,
60,000 Englishmen, Scotchmen, and soldiers were carried off by a
pestilence, as the records (l/eAl3A]\ oi]\i]^) of Dublin, Drogheda, and
Cork testify. For they state that it was found necessary to appoint
new burying-grounds outside the towns on account of the terrific
deaths of the people. And it is probable that this bitter lot befcl
them through the miracles of God, and the decree of that righteous
Judge, Christ : for they never observed any engagement or promise of
quarter, or protections made by them to the Irish, but shamefully
violated them, contrary to the law of nations. They used to murder
women and unbaptised children, old men and the sick, both young
and old. The truth of this account is evident in the instance of the
town of Timolin, in the County Kildare. It is also exemplified in
the massacre of their prisoners by the English at Knock (Cnoc a
Legif^^ij), where they slaughtered ten or twelve thousand persons,
although fettered, and after quarter had been granted to them. They
murdered all these, nor did they attempt to palliate the deed, but
when questioned in Dublin, merely said that they had fought furiously
against them, and that they took care to prevent their doing the like
again. But it was out of their power to say that the Irfsh ever
violated a promise of quarter made to them, while they broke engage-
ments with Henry O'Neill the son of Owen, and with Phelim O'Neill,
son of Tuathal, in the battle of Scarve Sollus*^ (a nuM-oiin riA SgAipbe
foliiif), and the defeat at Kilkenny above-mentioned.^*

As for the Governor, upon their crossing the Bann there was a
Captain of his people, namely William Taafe, left behind him. About
the time that he was approaching Movanagher^' (^^^^^5 beAnncui]\), the
people of Coleraine (CuL ]\ACAin) came to the Route (Kuca) and
Killyquin'"* (CoiLl o cmnn) in search of plunder, in number 1,100.
In Killyquin (Coilt o cuinn) there happened to be encamped James
M^Alister, the scabbed (1Tl<\c <\U\]X]\<Mnn ca]\]\ai5), James M^Cullagh,
and two of the sons of Con Ciotach (left-handed) before them ; so they
sent a message to William Taafe to wait in Glenquilly" (jleAnn
coilleA-o) near the Bann till the Scotch should come near them, and
when they would see them approach to unfold the banners and beat
the drums. This was done, and the M'Donnells fell into the

23. Query S^All^b rol^An', Sgairbh Sholais (Scarriffholis) on the Swilly, Co.
Donegal?— J. S.

24. There is no account of any battle at Kilkenny in the whole Journal.—]. S.

25. Movanagher Castle ruins are still extant in a townland of that name in the Parish of
Kilrea, Barony of Coleraine and Co. of Derry. It lies about 12 miles south of C'oleraine, and i %
miles north of Kilrea, on the west side of the River Bann, which at this place runs over a shoal,
having a crooked fall of 12 feet in summer, whence that part of the river is called Movanagher
Rapids.— J. W. H.

26. In the Ulster Inqn., 51, 55, 56, Chas. I., there are several grants of lands in Antrim
from the Earl of Antrim to Henry, Turlogh. and Philomy G'Quin, of Killoquine. — ^J. W. H.

[In 1641 Donnell Gorm MacDonnell resided in Killyquin, which seems to have included
Rasharkin and the four towns of Craigs. See Reeves's Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Dawn,
Connor, and Dromore, p. 331. — J. S.]

27. The Rev. James OLaverty, P. P. {History of the Diocese of Down and Connor, iv. p. 126),
identifies the locality here called ' ' Glenquilly " as "GlenstalL"— J. S.

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snare." The Scotch endeavoured to retreat, but they were nothing
the better for that, for 948 of them were killed at Bundooragh (bon
x)iib]\oi^e).*

As for the Governor,'^ Turlogh O'Neill MTurlogh M'Henry Og, he
went towards Masareene. Two of his Captains were killed, namely,
John 0*Hagan M*Henry M*Rory Boy (bin-oe) and Captain O'Hara.
Leaving the town, they burnt all the corn of the country as far as
Larne (LAtA|\nA), and they set on fire all the Scotch and English
towns in their way.

As for the General, he ordered many of his Captains to follow him
to Drogheda (-0^01 56^-0). He ordered a fat ox, a meddar of butter,
and four shillings of money to be levied oflF every Ballyboe'* from
Glassdrummond*^ (5^^M" 'ojioTniiinn) to Tullaghog" (Uiit<\c 65).
Having left Charlemont (^ca-o in -oa cAtAA-o) he went to Armagh, and,
having hanged and beheaded six persons there, he left that place in
revenge of the death of Lord Caulfield,'* and went to Newry, to Dundalk
(f|\Ac boili), and to Bewley in Louth (beicetin). It was here that the
General's camp was. He placed four Captains over the Boyne, namely,
Niall Og McNeill MTurlough M'Quin the lame (bACAc),*' Patrick
O'Donnelly, i.e., the gloomy (mot)A]\]\A), Felim O'Neill of the war
(An cogA-o), and Turlogh O'Quin the grim (5r"*-^"i^)- A detachment of
the English came from the City with a cannon on a cart among the
troops. The Irish immediately made a brisk attack on them, and
slew 40 of their enemies, with a loss of only six men on their side.
Captain Niall O'Neill retreated into a walled enclosure which was near

28. Inqn. Carrickfergus, 24 Aug., 1635, Alexr. M'Donell, of Killconway, died 14th May,
1634, James M'Donell, his son and heir, being then ten years of age.— J. W. H.

29. Bundooragh, parish of Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. — J. W. H.

[The " Bunderaga " of the British Officer's Irish Warr of 1641 , p. 22. — J. S.]

30. This was Turlogh O'Neill of Ardgonnel Castle, brother of Sir Phelim.— J. W. H.

[" Tirlagh O'Neil, Brother of the said Sir Phelomy, is his chiefest Councellor, and isa very sad
Man, well seen in the Laws of England, which he Studied in Lincoln's Inn. and was of good
repute there. " See Nalson's Impartial Collection, ii. p. 888. The British Officer, in his Warr
0/1641 (p. 20), describes Turlogh as "more a Mercm-ian than of Mars's traine." — J. S.]

31. A Ballyboe was sufficient land to graze 21 cows, with, in addition, a certain quantity of
forest, and enough meadow land to provide winter fodder. (See Sullivan's Introduction to O'Curry's
Manners and Customs 0/ the Ancient Irish, i. p. Ixxxix.) Dr. Reeves conjectures that "the
ancient ballyboe may be estimated as a fifth larger than our present townland ;" and the Ordnance
Survey gives 228 townlands, each averaging about 406 acres. (See Primate Cotton's Visitation,
p. 130.)— J. S.

32. There are six Glasdrummans, Co. Armagh, one of them near Newry, but the one
here alluded to is probably Glassdrummond in the parish of Aghaloo, Co. Tyrone, near
Caledon.— J. W. H.

33. The inauguration stone of the O'Neills was at TuUagh oge till 1602, when Mountjoy
"brake down the chair wherein the O'Neals were wont to be created, being of stone planted in

the open field." {Sec Fynes Moryson, ii. p. 197.) By the/^<7«ri!/aj/tfrjit iscallcd LeAC nA piOgj
" the flag stone of the kings." It is said that pieces of it were to be seen in the glebe-house
orchard, Descrtcreaght, till 1776, when the last fragment was carried away. (See C Donovan's
Four Masters, iv. p. 887.) — ^J. S. A plan of the Fort is given in Ulster Journal of Archceology,
vol. v. p. 235. — Editor.

34. This fact strengthens the evidence brought forward by Prendergast {Cromweliian
Settlement of Ireland, p. 63) to show that Sir Phelim O'Neill has been unjustly charged with
murdering Lord Caulfield. Dean Bernard, a contemporary, whose account is not noticed bv
Prendergast, states that, as Lord Caulfield was walking, "a Fellow came behind him, and with
a Brace of Bullets shot him quite through the Back." (See his Siege of Drogheda, p. 70.) — J. S.

35. Inq. at Augher, 22 Sept. , i Chas. I., Nealle O'Quyn of Ballenslouge. in the P. of Kildress,
of which he was seized, died 5 Octr. , 1621. Nealle Oge O'Quyn, his son and heir, was then 32, and
married. — J. W. H.

2o8 Old Belfast.

at hand, and closed the gate after them. They brought the cannon
along with them in order to break it, but the cart on which it was
broke down, and they were a long time mending it. The day closed
in on them, and so, having buried the bodies of the dead in the bogs,
they repaired to the city (-oon cAtjAAig), and the Irish came over the
Boyne and to Bewley (Decetin) to the camp of Sir Felim, the
General.

It was reported to the enemy that General O'Neill would be in the
camp of the M*Mahons and M*Kennasonthe 5th ofMarch about noon.
Accordingly a troop of Cavalry and 100 Infantry came towards the
camp of the M*Mahons. They were opposed for some time ; however,
Art Roe (the red-haired) MTatrick M*Art the bald (m^ol) was
wounded and taken prisoner, and his brother Rory was killed. Many
of our men were slain. This was beside Tullyallen (cuIac AUxin).**

March 1,1642. On the first Sunday in Lent, a sermon was preached by the
Guardian Paul O'Neill in Armagh, another by Father Henry
O'MuUen in the Chapel of Carnteel (CA]\n cSia-oaiI),'^ another by
Father Edmund Roe Mac Cathmaol in Clonfecle*® (CcluAin PacI<\),
and one by Father Joannes a Sancto Patricio in the Court-house of
Dungannon. Part of the loft fell under them ; some persons were
killed, and others had their bones broken.

March 6, 1642. Colonel Turlogh M*Art Og M*Turlogh Luineach" (Luinig) marched
according to orders which he received to Tyrconnell (Ui]\cotniitt), and
displayed seven banners along the Finn (coif pnni). There was a
body of Scotch, with ten standards, on the opposite side of the Finn.
The Connollys (ConAllAig) were about Magherabeg, and [Sir Ralph
Gore]*^ with a large part inside, and the Scotch came over to assist
him. The Clann of Art Og and the people of Art O'Neill marched
after them.

Mar. 26, 1642. General O'Neill brought three cannons from the Bridge*^ COiAoijeA-o)
to Dundalk (boiLe mic buAin).** Along with him was Alexander

36. Tullyallen is north of Drogheda.— J. W. H.

37. Carnteel is a little village about four miles from Caledon. — J. W. H.

[Carnteel (C^pn C-SlA-OAlt or Ca]\X\ C-SlAJAlL) signifies the earn of Sedulius or
SheiL See O'DonovsLu's Four MasUrs, iii. p. 297; v. p. 1366.— J. S.]

38. Clonfeakle, a parish in Co. Armagh, is written CLllAITl ^piAcnA by the Four

Masters. Jocelyn calls it Cluain-^acail. In the Taxation of 1306, and the Rtgistries of
Archbishops Sweteman, Sw^ne, Mey, Octavian, and Dowdell it appears as Clonftcyfui,
Clonfekyna, Clon/eguna, and Clonfekina. (See C Donovan's /^:7«rJ/aj/^rj, ii. p. 749.) It means
St. Fiachna's lawn or meadow. —J. S.

39. Turlogh, son of Sir Arthur O'Neill (who died 28th Oct., x6oo), who was the son of
Turlogh Lynagh ONeilL— J. W. H.

[Lynagh (Luineach) implies fosterage by O'Luinigh (O'Looney) of Muintirlooney, in the
Barony of Strabane. — ^J. S.]

40. Sir Ralph Gore. I supply the name from Reid's History (i. p. 344), where it is stated
that Sir William Cole, of Enniskillen, and Sir Ralph Gore, of Magherabeg, in Donegal, received
commissions from Charles I. in the latter end of 1641 to raise 500 men each. — J. W. H.

41. From Drogheda.— J. CD.

[Drogheda is sometimes simply called "the Bridge," -ATI tDpOlceAT), without the
addition of AC A, " of the ford." See O'Donovan's Four Masters, iii. p. 349. — J. S,J

42. The strand near Dundalk was anciently called Traigh Bhaile Mhic Buain, t.^., the
strand of Baile the son of Buan. (See O'Donovan's Four Masters, iii. p. 349.)— J. S.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 209

Hovenden's party, and Hugh [the yellow] Kelly (bin-oe). Lord
Moore*^ (171 ubA]A) fell on them, together with Sir Henry Tichburne**
(U]\o]^bi]\n), eleven flags and three troops of horse, upon the Saturday
before Passion Sunday. They came to Warren's Gate (gebcA <\n
tTiAiiAmij)** in the South quarter. They were driven from the town
twice, and their men were left stretched on the plain. The Heretics
(hei]\icn5), that is, the people of the yellow coats,** resolved to return
at daybreak : they brought a field cannon with them and broke down
the gate. They then rushed in on us, and filled the town. The
General and his people retreated,*^ having killed upwards of 300
men of the English, while he had only a loss of four killed and six
wounded. This was the day when the General's Musician, Thomas
Skinner [?](S5ime]^), was killed in Dundalk (fpAX) b).**

As to the General, a great multitude marched with him to Dundalk
(r)^|\Ac bAile), together with the Lieutenant-General of the Army, who
was trained up in the army of King Philip, and Colonel Turlogh
M'Henry MTurlogh M*Henry MTelim Roe ; and they took up their
quarters behind Dundalk. Here they lost a good horseman of their
troop, Tobias O'Quin.

The General sent his letters to Colonel Turlogh O'Neill, to the
descendants of Art, to the Clan of Shane Og O'Neill, and to Art
M*Quin M^Shane, directing them all to meet him at the Finn with
their detachments of the army.

He sent a message from Tullagh-og (UuIac 65) to Ballymoney
(p|\]-AT) tnonAij)*® that the soldiers should come to meet him at
Kilcronaghan (CilL c]\uinecAn) to be reviewed : and on the 20th April
he himself was in Moneymore (Uluinni Tn6]\), in the house of the
Governor, Cormac O'Hagan. The second night he was in a house

43. Bernard says Lord Moore and Tichbourne left Drogheda on the sist of March with
1,000 foot and 200 horse, burned Slane a second time, took " Atherdee" on the 23rd, and that
they had only 750 foot and 200 horse when they attacked Dundalk, and that there were 3.000 of

the Irish.— J- W. H.

[See Dean Bernard's IVAo/e Proceedings of the Siege of Drogfuda, 1736, pp. 86, 87, 93.
Bernard was ordered to be printed in 1642. — J. S.]

44. Tichbourne entered Drogheda as governor, 4th Nov., 1641. Lord Moore arrived there
with his troop of horse, 26th Oct. (See Bernard's Siege 0/ Drogheda, pp. xvi. 10.) — J. S.

5. It must be the name of a gate at Dundalk. — J. CD.
Unknown now. — J. S.]

46. This alludes to the soldiers' buff coats. Captain Grose (Military Antiquities, ii. p. 323)
says— "The buff coat or jerkin, which was originally worn under the cuirass, now became
frequently a substitute for it." — J. S.

47. Bernard says he retreated that night to Ballymaskomlin, ' ' a faire castle of Lord Moore's,
of which he burned a part." — ], W. H.

[See Bernard's Siege of Drogheda, p. 92. Ballymaskomlin is Ballynascanlan, not far from
Dundalk.— J. S.]

48. Up^lj b<Mte.— J. CD.

[SjAAt) b^lLe, street town, is the modem name of Dundalk.— J. S.]

49. Vow Ferry, on the River Bann. about 11 5^ miles south of Coleraine, in the Parish of
Aghadowey, Co. Deny. The Bann here forms a deep pool between Carnroe shoal to the north
and Movanagher rapids to the south. In the townland of Vow, Parish of Finvoy, Barony of
Ki Icon way, Co. Antrim, on the east side of the Bann (whence this ferry derives its name), is
a circular graveyard. (See Reeves's Eccl, Ant. Down, Connor, and Dromore, p. 384.) — ^J. W. H.

2IO Old Belfast.

belonging to Crosby (cpofbi), agood Catholic in Culmore** (CaII mop),
and was well entertained. The General proceeded to Coleraine (CuL
jtACAin)," in the Parish of Kilcronaghan.
April, 1642. To this Assembly there came from Tullagh-og (UuUxc 65), Felim

O'Hagan, the grim (moT)A|t|AA), a captain ; Shane O'Hagan M*Cormac, a
captain ; Niall 0*Quin, a captain ; Hugh 0*Hagan M'Teague, a captain ;
Patrick 0*Mellan M'Rory the freckled (bAlUxc), a captain ; Rory
Murray O'Devlin, a captain ; Felix 0'Neill,the grim (jpuAm A),a captain ;
Cormac O'Neill from Oghtleydan (Ucc t^ACAin), a captain ; Donald
O'Neill M'Culadh M*Shane (m<\c cu uIaix)), a captain ; Art Og
O'Hagan McDonnell M*Hugh, a captain ; Brian O'Neill M*Carry (mAc
An p|t T)0|tcA), a captain ; Art M*Hugh M'Shane a captain ;

and William Taafe, a captain. A thousand men of them were
appointed to guard all the country between that and Derry (*Ooi]ie),
and Newtown- Limavady (I6ym <\n tTiAT>pAT6), Artikelly (A]\x) An coiltin),
and Coleraine (Cut pACAin), and to protect it from the incursions of
the boats of Lough Neagh (Loc cacac) out of Claneboy (CLAtin Aot)A
bui-oi). The General went himself with a troop to Strabane (uj^aac
bAn), where the Lady of the son of the Earl of Abercom (Ap|AAco|An)
was, and she a widow." They attacked the Scotch, and M*Rory the
Anglicized (jaIca) was killed that day. The General brought the lady
from her town to Charlemont (Aca-6 An x)a cAtAAt)), and left a garrison
in Strabane, namely, the Divins (muincip x)uibin), and Shane M*Namee
over them. Three days after, the Scotch of LiflFord (Leic]:i]\) came
over to Strabane. The garrison fled, and were all slain, except such

as escaped by running. The Scotch came into the Court

they found gunpowder, lead, pikes, and swords, meat and drink there
for them.

As to the General : he sent a Franciscan Friar, Patrick O'Hamill,
to convoy the lady to Munster, where Sir George Hamilton then
was, and sent a company of horse with her. She had refused to
marry the General, saying that she had taken a vow of celibacy
for five years ; for his own wife died in the preceding harvest,
namely, the daughter of Lord Iveagh. Edward Monroe" (bonpoo)

50. See Sampson's Statistical Survey of County Londonderry, p. 28. Culmore in
Kilcronaghan. — ^J. W. H.

51. From the parish of Kilcronaghan. — ^J. CD.

[Coleraine is in the parish of Coleraine and partly in that of KiUowen. — ^J. S.]

5a. Lodge (Peerage, v. p. 114) says he brought her to his Castle in Tyrone. We prefer the
statement in the text. Reid states this to have been in December. 1641. Strabane Castle was
placed in charge of Captain Hugh Murragh O'Divin, with 100 choice musketeers and 100 pikes.
The l^gan forces took it and put all the men to the sword, placing O'Divin a prisoner in Derry
Gaol. They left in the Castle a garrison commanded by Captain Wisher, under the command of
Sir Wm. Hamilton. Colonel Audley Mervyn's Exact Relation, &c., presented to the House of
Commons in England, 4th June, 1642, cited by Reid (History of the Presbyterian Church in
Ireland, i. p. 361).— J. W. H.

S3- Recte, Robert Monroe. M'Skimin (Carrickfergus , p. 48) states that Monroe landed
at darrickfergus, i5lh April, 164a, with 2,500 men. Carte (Ormonde, i. p. 309) gives the same
number.— J. S.

Sir James Turner's Memoirs give a vivid account of the Scotch forces. He says that
Monroe's severity had not the success he anticipated, for, " instead of terrifying the rebells from
their wonted cruelties, it enraged them, and occasioned the murthering of some hundreths of
prisoners whom they had in their power." — Editor.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 211

arrived with 4,000 men from Scotland. They landed in Trian May i, 164a.
Congal" (U]\iAn CongAil).

They burnt and pillaged the Irish until they came to Newry
(<\ nnit)A|\ cinn ciiaja). Hugh McDonnell Og M'Eamuin Magenis
was captain of Newry and its Castle, and he surrendered the
Castle to Monroe, in which there was abundance of provisions, arms,
and clothing." Five hundred men were left in Newry,*^ and 3,500
were sent through Trian Congail (U|\iAn CongAil) to sack that
country. A monk of the order of St. Bernard, and Rory O'Sheal, a May i, 1642.
priest, were hanged, and thrown over the bridge of Newry into the sea
at high water. Edward Monroe" sent a message to the Earl of
Antrim (^nq\oni),** Randal Og, and the Earl invited him to Dunluce
(•Oun libp). The consequence of the invitation was that the Earl
was taken, and the town : a garrison was left in the town, and the
Earl kept a prisoner.

The General sent Paul O'Neill to Galway (gAillitii) to buy Gun- May2, 1642.
powder. He staid away 40 days, and brought a quantity with him of
that article.'*

Armagh was burnt; the Cathedral with its steeple'® (clogAf) and May 6, 1642.

54. Trian Congal extended from Glynn, near Lame, to Movilla, near Newtownards.
Reeves, Eccl. Ant., p. 344 and note. — J. W. H.

[" Clannaboy (the whole, or the greater part) was more anciently called Trian Congaill."
(See Joyce's Atlas and Geography of Ireland, P- 18 ) A note in Connellan's Four Masters, p. 258,
is inaccurate in so far as it does not state that Trian Congail extended into Co. Down. It says: —
" Trian Congaill appears to have been a large territory in the southern part of the county of
Antrim, of which the O'Neills of Claneboy were lords, as stated in the course of these Annals." —
J. S.] There is a valuable unpublished map of this district, circa 1580, in Carew MSS., Lam-
beth Palace.— Editor.

55. Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 309) states that the Castle of Newry was surrendered on the 3rd
May, and that it contained " only half a barrel of powder and sixty muskets, not above a dozen
of them fixed : so utterly unable were the Rebels to provide for the defence of that important
place." — J. S.

56. According to Carte [Ormonde, i. p. 309), 300 men, under Lieutenant-Colonel Sinclair.
—J. S.

Sir James Turner was there, and describes a storm that arose in the beginning of May. He
says it was attributed *' to the devilish skill of some Irish witches." — Editor.

57. Recte, Robert Monroe. The Earl of Antrim was confined six months in Carrickfergus,
and then made his escape. He was taken again by Monroe in May, 1643, ^-^d incarcerated
in the same place. He was assisted to escape from this second confinement by Col. Gordon, of
Monroe's army. JSee Hill's Montgomery MSS., p. 426; Macdonnells of Antrim, pp. 261-5;
and W'SVxvciMxs History and Antiquities of Carrickfergus, pp. 49, 51.) The Rev. Geo. Hill {ubi
supra) places the Earl's first captivity in June, 1642. — J. S. [See note concerning Monroe,
Town Book of Belfast, p. 312.]— Editor.

58. 'Aen'oiMiim.— J. O'D.

59. According to Carte's Ormonde (i. p. 307), Sir Phelim had only a firkin and a-half of
powder remaining in April, 1642. Father Paul O'Neill was a most active partisan. In the
fudgment against Sir Phelim O'Neill he is referred to as " yt postilian ffryer or popish Prest who
went 13 times for you to Brussells in halfe a yeare." (See Appendix, Meehan's Confederation of
Kilkenny, p. 318.)— J. S.

In the Pinkerton MSS. is an interesting note on the difficulty of getting gunpowder, ex-
perienced by the Irish in all their wars, as they were quite unable to make it. Pinkerton attached
great importance to this fact, and says it contributed much to their defeats. — Editor.

60. Steeple, i.e., Round Tower. — J. O'D.

[Steeple was the name commonly applied by the settlers to a Round Tower. It is still that
which is popularly used in reference to the Round Tower of Antrim. How soon after O'Mellan's
time the Round Tower of Armagh completely disappeared is not known. Its conical cap,

DeTTOCobAp X>0 cLoiCCeAch 'A^A'OA ITlAchA, was blown off in a great storm in 1121.
See O' Donovan's Four Masters, ii. p. 1012. — J. S.]

212 Old Belfast.

with Its bells, organs, and glass windows, and the whole city, with the
fine library, with all the learned books of the English on Divinity,
Logic, and Philosophy. The weather was very warm, and there was
an East wind, so that the flames reached the Cathedral. Lough-gall
(t)Aite Loc 5aI), Tandragee (con |Ae jaoic), Hy-Nialand (lb niAltAn),
Lurgan*^ (lb b]\efAil), Toaghie (Uuac eAchAc), Maydown^* 0^<^5 ^^
x)uin), and Portmore (pope mop).

The General gave orders that the troops should be assembled at
Tandragee to meet the Scotch, namely. Colonel Monroe (bon]too).
About 2,000 men came.

May 21, 1642. A troop came from Dundalk (cppAc boile) to the Fews CPeo^TOA),
and to Sliabh Fuaid.®* They took some plunder, but were deprived
of it by Turlogh M*Art MTurlogh M*Henry, and their Captain and
14 horsemen of the troops were killed. Next day a troop arrived out
of Dundalk, and a large number of foot soldiers, with a set of horses
laden with arms, to place a garrison in the Castle of Glass-Drummond
(5^^r "opoTTmine). Shane O'Neill happened to be in that Castle, and
having set fire to the upper part of it, he and his party left the Castle
in flames, and went off among the bogs. The soldiers, seeing the
Castle on fire, returned to Dundalk (*Oini 'oeAt5<\n).

Donnell Gimley" (SeinileAc), that is, the son of O'Cahan, arrived
from Spain at Charlemont (^ca-o An -oa cApA-o)," where the General
was.

May 27, 1642. The Scotch of Massareene (iflAp A^iignA) came over Lough Neagh.
Captain O'Hagan met them ; four of them were killed and six
wounded. They returned immediately over the lake.

May 29, 1642. A great multitude of Scotch arrived from Scotland at Trian Con-
gal (UpiAn con 5 Ai II), so that the Irish (hepionnAij) fled over to the
Countess of Antrim (cuncAoi]' -Anrpom), Sir James McAllister the
scabbed (ca]\]\ac), James M*Cullagh, James M'Goffrey M*Henry, the

May 31, 1642. clan of Colla Ciocac (left-handed) across the Bann (bAnnA), and Lady
Iveagh, Sarah O'Neill, the clan of Turlogh Iveagh M*Artan.^

61. Lurg^an?— J. CD. Clanbrassil.

[Clanbrassil was a territory south of Lough Neagh, where the Bann enters the Lough : co-
extensive with the present Barony of O'Neilland East. The O'Garveys were its ancient chiefs ; in
more modern times, the MacCanns. See the Leabhar na g-Ceart, or Book of Rights, p. 148. — ^J . S.

62. Maydown, opposite Benburb. It is on the Co. Armagh side of the Blackwater. — J.W.H.

63. Sliabh Fuaid takes its name from Fuad, son of Breogan, who came over with the sons
of Milesius. (See C Donovan's Four Masters, vi. p. 1923.) The territory known as the Fews,

Co. Armagh, has its name from 'PlO'6 or 'JTeA'D, a wood. " Fewes bordereth upon the
English Pale within three miles of Dundalk : it is a very stronge Countrey of wood and bogg,
peopled with certeyne of the Neyles, accustomed to lyve much upon spoile of the Pale " (See
Bagenal's Description and Present State of Ulster, ijS6, in the U/ster Journal of Arch<tolo^,
ii. p. 150 ; also The Description of Ireland in 1398, p. 21, edited by Rev. E. Hogan, S. ].)—]' S.

64. Gimley.— J. O'D,
[5^iniLeAC means a captive.—). S.]

65. — Atha an da cara, *' The ford of the two friends," was the old name of the passage over
the Blackwater where Charlemont now stands. — J, W. H.

[" Achadh-an-da-Charadh " (which is the correct form) means " the field of the two weirs."
Compare "Clar-atha-da-Charadh," "the plain of the ford of the two weirs," in O'Donovan's
Four Masters, iii. p. 413, and "Cluain da Charadh" (Cloondacarra, Co. Roscommon), "the
meadow of the two weirs." See Joyce's Irish Nantes of Places, i. p. 255. — J. S.]

66. This passage is evidently wrong translated. Trian Congail was another name for the
Claneboys. liidy Iveagh was daughter of Hugh, Eiarl of Tyrone. — J. W. H.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 213

The General marched against the Scotch of Tir-connell. They June 9, 1642.
did not remain long inactive in Tir enna*^ ('C\\\ ennA) when they came
near them. They erected a sconce** that very night, in which were
2,000 muskets. Quiet and silent were the Scotch during the night,
but noisy and talkative the Irish. At break of day they attacked
each other. They rushed forward to the contest ; men were scattered
and slain. The Scotch retreated to the sconce, and took away the
ammunition. The rear of the Irish, that is, the pikemen, were
taken.* The General and O'Cahan were in the fight bravely in the
face of the enemy. The Scotch gave way in like manner. The
General cried out to his own men saying that the Scotch were
retreating, but all in vain, for they would not come back to the charge.
Shane O'Donnelly the yellow (bin-oe), a Captain, Felim O'Hagan the
gloomy (mo-oAitjAA), a Captain, and Felim O'Neill the grim (5)\uAmA),
a Captain, were all killed, and Allister, son of Colla ciocac (left-
handed), was wounded. Many were slain there. Upwards of 140
blind and lame persons were killed. An old preacher, a Franciscan
Friar, Ludovicus M*Namee, from Armagh, was slain, together with
Priest Maurice M*Cordan. Nial O'Neill, a lame club-footed man, gave
a blow of his big staff to one of the troopers who was about to kill
him, which knocked him down. He then despatched him, and took
away his arms and horse along with him/^

Lord Conway (Con|.v\i5), Lord Blaney, young Lord Caulfield, and July 14, 1642.
Lord Hamilton came and pitched their camp near Armagh with a
great army. They gathered plunder, and they sent a large detachment
of cavalry to carry off the horses of the O'Byrnes" (a ccij lAt)t\Aif
nec|\uAl). They burnt Dromorragh (*0]\iiini o]\]\ai5), the seat of Sir
Felim O'Neill,^ and all his plate. Kinard (Cionn ah\'o)" was burnt
precisely on Sunday (•oiA-oomnAig •oo pinnjAA-o).

These great forces came to Dunavally^* (x)iin bAllA) and remained July 21, 1642.
there. As to the General, he left Chailemont (^ca-o ati x)a cajaa-o),
along with Con Og M'Quin McNeill M^Brien Fagartach (V^B^I^^^^S) of
Kinalarty, the Colonel, and O'Cahan, leaving Niall O'Neill with a

67. Tir Enna, or Tir Enda, was "a territory comprising thirty quarters of land in the
present County of Donegal!, lying south of Inishowen. between the arms of Lough Foyle and
Lough Swilly, that is, between LifFord and Letterkenny." (See O'Donovan's Four Afas/ers, iii.
p. 19.) It received its name from Enda, the youngest son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.— J. S.

68. A "sconce" is a blockhouse or small fort. (See Halli well's Dictionary of Archaic and
Provincial Words, ii. p. 712.) — J. S. For drawing of one near Belfast, see Town Book of Belfast ^
p. 307. — Editor.

69. Were taken, or, received the attack. — J. CD.

70. In this engagement the Scotch were commanded by Sir Robert Stewart. It was fought,
according to the British Officer (/r/jA Warr of 1641, p. 23), "at a place called Glommaquin, in
the County of Dungall," i.e., Glenmaquin or Glenmacwin, near Raphoe. — ^J. S.

71. O'Bymes. Stilorgan, i.r., Clj LOpjAltl.— J. O'D.

72. Dromorragh, near Caledon, the residence of Sir P. O'Neill — J. W. H.

73. Kinard, i.e., Caledon. In the settlement under James I., Turlogh O'Neill had a grant
of Kinard, with 4,000 acres. (See Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, i. p. 243 ;
also Pynnars Survey of Ulster in Harris's Hibemica, p. 211.) Lord Montgomery burned Kinard
on 20th June, according to Carte's Ormonde (i. p. 310), " and the next day forced the town of
Charlemont." — J. S.

74. Dunavally, in which is the old fort of Legar-hill, overlooking Charlemont. — J. W. H.

214 Old Belfast.

garrison in Charlemont ^Ac^Xf ^r. xj^ c^r.^x»^, and the\- came themselves
to Brantry* ^y.ertzpu^^ to the house of a Friar of Armagh. There was
a guard upon the ford of Portmore >\ch a p-j^-r tto— , but in spite
of this, the English came across and killed two horsemen of Turlogh
x;pu-in:4 O'Quin's, namely Eneas and Patrick Og O'Quin, sons of
f^atrick M'Felim the red [yu^^fj.)

Jaly24, 1642. Captain Richard Codan [? Cowan] 'Cot»^-} was placed in the
garrison of Dungannon 'riun 3^e^nu:m , and the Court of Bally-
donnelly^ 'boil^ Tion-ojkoile^, and the outskirts of the toim were burnt
by Randal McDonnell, according to the General's orders.

Lx>rd Conway ^Cony'^^^J and those other Lords sent to the Captain
of Charlemont ^^c^rj ^n r,^ c^p^tj^ desiring him to surrender the to^t^-n
to them, and promising him the title of Earl of TjTone. " I Di-iil not

Jnljr 27, 1642. surrender," was his reply. They then attacked the place four days
successively. The Lords and their forces then encompassed
Dungannon. The garrison, namely, Nicholas O'Macan, Patrick
M'Manus, Lawrence O^Quillan,** and the rest, delivered up the
town, and all the prisoners who were in it They took Captain
Cowan to Lord Conway ^ConyAij , and he was hanged, together
with his son, and a Dominican Friar. A Garrison consisting
of a troop and some infantr>' was left in Dungannon." The
Lords with their army then returned to Charlemont \\cAt) An -oo^
cA|l4^Tj), and were for three days round it skirmishing with the Garrison.
They thought they would take it as easily as Dungannon.^ They
raised the siege, and carried off with them some spoil from Hugh Boy
(buiT>e) M^Kclvey ; they murdered old men, women, and children, and
took prisoner the upright Priest, and the excellent preacher and singer,
James OTallagan, and Hugh O'Quin. Their lives were taken im-
mediately on returning ; their lives would have been spared if they
would change their religion. Letters came from Owen O'Neill M*Art,
son of Ferdoragh (niokc Okti p]\T)0]\cv\), to the General of the Province of
Ulster, stating that he should come to meet him at the Castle of
Doe^ (cAij'leAn nok -ocuac). Three thousand men accordingly went
there on the i8th of July.

They took the garrisons of Dungannon and Mountjoy, and we lost

7^. Fiallydonnelly, now Castlecaulfield. (See Pynnnr's Surfer in Harris's Hihtmica^ p. 209.)
— J. W. H. There are some drawings of the Jacobean castle in the Macadam MSS. — Editor.

[On an old map of Ulster, in the Slate Paper Office, this place is shown as " Fort and Lough
O'Donnellie." f 'astlecaulfield takes its name from Sir Toby Caulfield. ancestor of the Earls of
Charlemont, to whom it was granted by James I. It contained 24 ballyboes. as appears from an
Inquisition at Dungannon, 23rd August, 1610. See O'Donovan's Four Masters, v. p. 1404. — J. S.]

76. O'Caillcain.— J. O'D.

77. The British Officer says {Irish Warr of 1641, p. 27) : — " Captain Theophilus Jones, of
the I>ord Conway's Regiment, was left to command it. At this time our Regiment [i.e.. Sir John
Clot worthy's] kept Mountjoy." — J. S.

78. The British Officer {Irish Warr of 1641 ^ p. 27) owns that Charlemont "did them more
harm than they could do to it."— J. S.

7^. Uoc Castle. Co. Donei^al. the residence of the MacSwynes. Owen Roe had come from
Dunkirk, sailing round the north of Scotland. (Sec Cartes Ormonde, i. p. 311.) The Aphoris-
miscal Discovery of Faction (i p. 43) states that he took two prizes on his way, and that the
commanders whom he brought with him were " ould-beaten soldiers of his own regiment in
Flanders." " Ould-ljcaten," 1.^., tried veterans.— J. S.

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Patrick jj^uattia O'Quin,®* and three old heroes, Felim b^lb (the
stammerer) O'Muldoon," Turlogh Dubh, and Conor O'Gibbon ; our
army being away from us in Tirconnell.

They carried off from the borders of Brantry (bpencAip) at Knock- July 31, 1642.
nacloy®^(cnoc An cluice), above 140 cows, and horses with their harness
(yo riA rriAtin jcib), sheep, goats, and accoutrements.

A party of English and Scotch soldiers came from Trian Congal Aug. 4, 1642.
(U]\iAn ConjAil) to Hy Nialland (lb niAllAin) to reinforce the gar-
risons of Dungannon and Mountjoy. They went up beyond Clanda-
well^ (-oAbAill) and plundered the M*Kennas indiscriminately. Next
day they returned to Dungannon and brought the plunder with them. Aug. 6, 1642.
These forces left Dungannon in the night and went towards the
Large" (l^eAjijAig), Truagh (U]\ioca), Clossach" (Cloff ac), and the
borders of Slieve Beagh (SliAb beACA), as far as Glendavagh*'(5^eAnn
An -oeATTiAin). A party of the Irish happened to fall in with them
near the woods, when a slaughter ensued on both sides. They carried
away their plunder to Dungannon that same day, and eight troopers
in sacks along with them.

The same forces went to Mountjoy, and having waited for some
time near a wood they received intelligence of plunder being beside
Sliabh Gallon (j^liAb cAllunn). They carried it off and killed

and his brother Conor. Twelve troopers went to

Kilcronaghan (cil c]uiinneACAin)and Maghera (ITlACAipe a |aa). The
Ulster-men followed them, and there was not a great man of them
who was not either killed or drowned in the Bann.^

80. Edward Bunting, the musician who collected our national airs, claimed descent from
Patrick Gruama O'Quin. (See No/es and Queries, ist series, iv. p. 452.)— J. S.

81. The O'Muldoons were a Fermanagh family located in the Barony of Lurg. — J. W. H.
[There are repeated references to the O Muldoons, Lords of Lurg, in the Four Masters, the

earliest being at a.d. iooo.— J. S.]

82. Knocknacloy is situate on the west side of the Oona river, at its embouchure into the
Blackwater.— J. W. H.

83. Glenaul— J. W. H.

Glenaul was a large district, the property of the Primate, on the Armagh side of the Black-
water, lying along its side from Calcdon to Blackwater town. It is now the name of an
Electoral Division in the Poor Law Union of Armagh. (See Appendix to Ulster Inquisitions for
description.)— J. W. H.

84. The " Large." The principal part of this is the town of Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone. In
the Plantation of Ulster the Lord Ridgwaie was allotted 2,000 acre^, called Large, upon which,
at the date of P>nnar's Survey (1618-19), he had built "a Bawne of Lime and Stone, 160 feet
square, 14 feet high, with four flankers, and a House in it of Timber." (Harris's Hibemica, p.
209.)-;. W.H.

85. The "Closaghe." (See Reeves's Primate Cotton's Visitation, p. 126, for a description
of this district, which comprised the present parishes of Clogher and Errigal Keerogue, in the
County Tyrone.— J. W. H.

[It was also called Magh Leamhna. An old map of Ulster, preserved in the State Paper Office,
shows it as " the Countrie of Cornjac Mac Barone " [O'Neill]. See O'Donovan's FourMasters^ i.
p. 46: also the Leabhar nag-Ceart, or Book of Rights, p. 152. — J. S.]

86. Glenadamhain, now Glendavagh, a townland in the parish of Aghaloo, Barony of
Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.— J. W. H.

Devils Glen.— J. OD.

[This would be the meaning of the old name, but Glendavagh, as Joyce says {Irish Names of
Places, ii. p. 434), means "a glen having deep pools along its course."— J. S.]

87. Or, and all their leaders were either slain or drowned in the Bonn, — J. CD.

2i6 Old Belfast.

Aug. 12, 1642. From Mountjoy the forces returned to Dungannon, in number
4,000 men. They received information that there was plunder in
Munter-Byrne*' (ITliiincip bi|^n) in the possession of Brian O'Hugh, a
priest in Glenkeen" (CluAin con). They carried it off with them, and
seized upon Edmund Finn, a priest. A horseman of the army having
turned upon two young men of the Creaghts** (CAopAigeAcu), was
attacked by them with a volley of stones, which knocked him off
his horse. They then killed him, and took away his horse and
accoutrements with them.

All the great plunder above-mentioned was brought from those
places which I have stated to Trian Congal (U]\iAn con 5 Ait) on [Saint
Clare's] day" (La yA^^ cU\]\a).

Aug. 13, 1642. The GeneraF^ returned along with Owen O'Neill, the O'Reillys,
M'Mahons, the inhabitants of Fermanagh, and M*Keowns, with plenty
of ammunition (].ni]\rAcc irionAipon leo), and the English drew back as
the General and his forces advanced. The famous, honorable, per-
severing Commander had arrived through the sea from the north with
only a single ship and a company of soldiers, commanded by Captain
Antony, the Fleming, an intrepid officer. They landed at the Castle
of Doe (cAU'leAn ha rruAc).

Aug. 16, 1642. General Leslie*® and Lord Auchinbreck came from Scotland, and
Colonel Monroe met them in Trian Congal (U|\iAn congAit). They
marched together with 8,000 men to Coleraine and Ballymoney^
(]reA|A]^A'o iTionAij). 0*Kane, that is, Donnell Gimley, with a large
party came upon them at the Ferry** (]:eA|\|v\'o). The Scotch were
defeated, they took to the woods around, and they lost about 1 50 men,
while not a single one of the Irish was killed. The inhabitants of the
Barony of Loughinsholin (Loc ini]' o Unnn) and the O'Kanes went to

88. Muintir Birn was a district in the south of the Barony of Dungannon. adjoining the
territory of Trough. Co. Monaghan, and Toaghie, now the Barony of Armagh. (See the Leabhar
na g-Ceart, or Book of Rights, p. 151.)— J. S.

89. Glenkoen is a townland in the Parish of Aghaloo, Co. Tyrone, between Caledon and
Aughnacloy.— J. W. H.

90. The Creaghts were shepherds in time of peace, and drove the cattle-preys in time of

war. The word Creaght comes from cpeAC, plunder, or CAO]\ACX), cattle. — J. S. See note on
above, Town Book of Belfast^ p. 304. — Editor.

91. This is the festival day of St. Muredach. Bishop of Killala. Also St. Clare's ; this pro-
bably is the correct reading. — J. W. H.

[St. Clare's festival is i2ih August, See Butler's Lives of the Saints at that date.— J. S.]

92. Sir Phelim O'Neill. By "the General, " Owen Roc O'Neill is meant, in all entries in
this Journal subse(]uent to 29th August, 1642, when Sir Phelim is noticed as resigning in his
favour. — J. S. An engraved portrait of the latter, entitled "Sir Phelom O'Neile, Chief Traytor of
all Ireland," exists.— EniTOR.

93. General Leslie landed on the 4th August, according to Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 349. By
•• Lord Auchinbreck " is meant Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck. He was a cousin of the
Marquis of Argyle. See Hills Afacdonneils of Antrim, pp. 73.74. Auchinbrecks Regiment is
mentioned by the British Officer {Irish Warr of 1641, p. 50) as *' Collonel Campbell's, alias
Aghinbrack's, quartered in the Roote." — J. S.

94. This cannot be Ballymoney, Co, Antrim. It is Vow Ferry, on the Bann. — J. W. H.

?5. Toome. — J. W. H.
n the Latin Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, Toome is called Fersait Tuama. (See Reeves's
Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, p. 293.) Compare Fertais Tuamma
in the Irish Tripartite, i. p. 168. In the Four Masters (ii. p. 961) it is UllAllTI.— J. S.

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Brantry (b]\eAncun\), to Truagh (Ujuoca), and to Sliabh Beagh. The

General** and Owen O'Neill happened to be in Charlemont (^ca-q An ■da

cA]\At)). They were shown the forces approaching. The General went

to Sliabh na Maol (j^liAb nA itiaoI) and collected 1,000 men, and Owen

O'Neill went to O'Neilland (lb niAllAn) and there gathered 2,000.

The numerous Scotch forces arrived at Dungannon and fired oflf their

guns in one volley, and I myself heard that tremendous report. They

encamped during the night at (oilen cu|\]Mn), near Armagh,

and on Saint Bartholomew's day they marched to Newry ("oon lubAp). Aug. 24, 1642.

The General pursued them a great part of the way.

The General sent five Captains about Dungannon, on Saint Aug. 28, 1642.
Augustine's day.*^ They brought away upward of 100 cows. Trenches
were made round the Castle, and an excavation was made which was
brought under the Castle. Captain Jones (Seony^A) capitulated, and
was permitted to bring the arms with them and to Mountjoy. The
General placed, as a Governor in Dungannon, Turlogh O'Neill M'Art
Og, Turlogh M^Shane Og O'Neill, Randal McDonnell, and Niall
Og O'Neill, all Captains— Art M*Hugh buit)e (yellow) O'Neill made
an incursion into Ballyscanlon (b i j^gAnlAn), and took from the Bawn
outside the gate of the Castle 50 cows. One of them died, and there
was a sharp fight for her.

A day of general meeting was appointed by the nobles of the Aug. 29, 1642.
province of Ulster. The clan of the O'Neills came, together with the
General and Owen : also the O'Reillys, O'Kanes, M*Rorys, O'Dalys,
M*Mahons, Managhans*^ (ITlAnchAis), and the McDonnells, with Sir
James McAllister the scabbed (ca]\]\ac), all came to Clones (ccluAin
eoif), for the purpose of electing a General. Sir Felim resigned the
title on condition that it should be conferred on his elder relation
Owen — Owen was accordingly nominated General of Ulster, and Sir
Felim, President.

Soldiers were sent with Lieutenant-Colonel Shane Og O'Neill Sept. 8, 1643.
M'Shane M*Brien of Munter-loony (1^15^15). The enemy came in
search of fuel, and had sixteen of their men killed.

O'Kane appointed pay for the two sons of Colla ciouAtg (the left-
handed), namely, Gillespie and Randal : — in the first place, 25 pounds
towards the purchase of clothing and coigny on O'Kane's creaghts"
(1 coinrfieAt) Ay nA civoi-oeAcuAib cAUAnAc 50 uogbAit buAnnAccA'ooib).
O'Kane went to the place where the General was. The sons of Colla
mustered their people, and told the soldiers to carry away from the
people of every house who had coigne, their cows and horses, together
with their household furniture, their sheep and goats, with their
accoutrements. This was done, and they brought the plunder with
them to Coleraine. They raised a fortification for themselves.

96. Sir Phelim ONcill— J. S.

97. St. Augustine's Day and the date of the entry in the Journal are identicaL "The
General " is still Sir Phelim O'Neill.— J. S.

98. The men of Fermanagh. — J. O'D.

99. Until they should take Bon aght from them. — J. O'D.
[Coigny and Bonaght, i.^., entertainment and free quarters.— J. S.]

2i8 Old Belfast.

The General sent i,cxxd men to protect the Bann from the enemy,
for they were numerous in Trian Congail (U]\iAn CongAil).

Oct. 3, 1642. The Earl of Ormond arrived with 4,000 men and laid siege to

Carrickmacross (ca|a|\iiic tnACAi]Ae ah ]\o)y) ; Captain Fox and the
Garrison fled. Next day the English came to the Court and hanged
the Lady Eveleen, wife of Art Og M'Brien the wrestler (ha TnbA|^|\o5),
and daughter of Eiver M*Cooley M*Mahon.

Oct. 17, 1642. Pope Urban the Fifth'®^ sent an army of 500 men to Ireland. Sir
Felim went with his part of the Ulster forces to that army He soon
after married the daughter of Thomas Preston.'®^ The dowry he re-
ceived with her was arms for 500 horsemen, 200 muskets, and 3,000
pounds.

Nov. 13,1642. It was determined that a Parliament should be held at Kilkenny.
Thither the GeneraP®* went.

Dec. 13, 1642. The Enniskillen soldiers came and plundered the country. They
were attacked by the Maguires (fiol t1i'6i]\y'^ We lost that day
three Captains, namely, Donaghy M'Cabe the scabbed (ca]a]aac), James
M*Goffrey*®* M*Henry, and Captain M*Cabe, with other persons not
named.

January6,i643 fi^g General and Sir Felim came from the Council of Kilkenny to
Charlemont (^ca-o ati -oa ca]\ax>).

April 27, 1643. The plunderer, that is, Rory O'Haran, and the son of Sir Thomas
Philipps, collected the people of the Castles, and a great multitude
from Derry. In Ballynascreen (bAile riA f^pine) they fell in with
Niall O'Neill. From that they proceeded to Lissan (Lerj^An) and
burnt the Iron-mill of Tattynagilta^**' (uAire riA ccoilreAc). They took
from Niall Og O'Quin a stud of horses, his swine and sheep, and about
20 guns. Shane O'Hagan and his people were plundered, Rory
O'Mellan'*** the speckled (bAllAc)'®' was taken, and Cookstown (Cojip
c]\iocAc) burnt.

The Coleraine soldiers fell upon Cormac O'Neill M*Felim Og at
Rallagh, and robbed and killed his people, namely, the M*Williams.*^
Thence they went to the Lake of Loughinsholin, and to Moneymore,
until the two forces were near one another. They collected a great

100. This should be Urban the Eighth (Maffei Barberini). Urban the Fifth died in 1370.
Urban the Fifth occurs again in this translation ; but it is not probable that Friar O'Mellan was
ignorant of the proper designation of the Pope who was reigning in his own time. The mistake
must be the translator's. Urban receives his correct numerical designation in the entry, 28th
August, 1646. — J. S.

loi. She is quaintly styled "a Dutch borne" by the author of the A phorismical Discovery
of Faction, i. p. 53. General Preston had acquired much military fame in the Low Countries. — J. S.

102. Owen Roe.— J. S. For description of his portrait, written by the Rev. J. O'Laverty,
P.P., M.R.I. A., see Ulster Journal of Archa:ology, vol. iv. p. 24. — Editor.

103. The Sil Vidhir were the Maguires, MacAuleys, MacCaffrys, MacManuses, and their
correlatives in Fermanagh. (See O'Donovan's Four Masters, iii. p. 476.)— J. S.

104. MGovry.— J. O'D. M'Henry O'Aan^".— J. O'D.

105. Tattynagilta, a townland in the Parish of Lissan, Co. Tyrone.— J. W. H.

106. O'Mellan, now Mullan.— J. O'D.

107. Speckled, i.e., freckled. DaLI/AC {Ballach or Ballagh) is of common occiurence in
the names of Irish chiefs. — J. S.

108. M 'Williams, a tribe of the Burkes.— J. O'D.

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deal of spoil, and the Creaghts fled to Dungannon. After plundering
to a great extent, the English returned to Loughinsholin. They sent
Rory O'Mellan'^ (bAllAc) to demand the Island (ah oile^n) from
Shane O'Hagan M*Keown M*Cammon Og. It was refused them.
They fired three shots from a cannon they had with them, and then
left the place. They returned to their homes laden with spoil.

The garrison of Mountjoy held out in spite of the Irish. Precisely
on Thursday ('OA|A'OAoin 'oo fonn|AAx>), a reinforcement of 1,000 men
having come to the garrison from Massareene, they took from Felim
of the war (^n cogAi-o) O'Neill 30 cows. They came in the same April 28,1643.
boats next day to M*Cann*s fort and took some plunder. The
General's people followed, and killed above 60 of them. They lost
their plunder too, and a great quantity of arms. The General only
lost eight men, together with Art O'Neill M'Cormac M*Turlogh
Breasalagh (bpeAf aIac). Sir Felim came to the besieging army and
doubled it ; so that he prevented all egress. The reinforcing party
were obliged to return in their boats for want of provisions.

The soldiers of Tyrconnell, consisting of 3,000 men under the com- May 4, 1643.
mand of Sir Robert Stewart, arrived and plundered Clossagh (clocf a-o),
and then proceeded to Truagh (UpocA). Five of their horsemen went May 5, 1643.
to Largy (LeApx^Ai-o). Sir Felim and O'Kane happened to be near
the place with 100 horse and 100 foot. Donnell Gimley went to re-
connoitre the enemy, and perceived the five horsemen near him.
O'Kane spurred till he was between the two forces, and his horse
fell with him. The animal's head happened to be undermost, so
that O'Kane found it impossible to raise him on his feet. He was
immediately taken prisoner, and the horse-men were enabled to get
off* in safety from the fleetness of their horses. Hereupon Sir Felim
said that he would not suffer them to carry off" O'Kane. He set off"
in pursuit, but in the meantime a Scotch trooper sent a bullet through
O'Kane's head : he fell lifeless to the ground, and they carried away
his horse and arms. Sir Felim came to the body, and had it interred
in Armagh.

With respect to the enemy, they came to M*Kenna's residence
(boile ITlec Cioda) and took it, together with much wealth. They
came back plundering all the way, and hanged Priest M^Gilmurry in May;, 1643.
his own parish of Drumragh"® (X)]\oini ]aacv\), on Sunday precisely (-oi a
looTrinAc x)o funn|\A"6).

Robert Monroe came to Tandragee with 4,000 men, and burnt the May 12, 1643.
houses in O'Neilland (lb ni<\llAin). About that time the General's
people, his horse and foot soldiers, came upon them. The Lieutenant
of the enemy's cavalry, two Captains, and a number of soldiers were
killed there. Night coming on, the Creaghts fled, namely, the people
of Upper Claneboy, Iveagh, and the County Armagh, to Brantry
(bpenro]\). Oriel (GijajiaIIa), &c. However, the Scotch were not
without plunder ; they burnt three corn mills. Sir Felim sent a party

109. This is incorrect. — J. O'D.

no. The Parish in which lies the town of Omagh. — J. W. H.

The old parish church of Drumragh stood nearly two miles south of Omagh. In i6aa it is
reported as ruined, but that there was "hope" and "means" that a new church might be
erected in Omagh. The ancient walls still exist. — W. T. Latimbr, B.A.

220 Old Belfast.

to Anasamery*" (Catiac f Am]\<Mt)), to the house of the General, to
bring away whatever arms were there ; and, about three hours after,
the enemy came and burnt Anasamery (^atiac f Am]\Aix>). A great
body of the M*Kennas came and carried away much spoil. Sir Felim
sent Colonel Thomas Sanford and 300 men to take it from them ; and
they killed about 200 of them. They staid three days encamped at
Tandragee, and returned with a large quantity of wheat, meal, and
corn.

The plunderer (that is, Rory O'Haran) came, and brought Scotch
troops from the Castles, and the son of Thomas Philipps from Newtown-
limavady, on an enterprise to plunder Art and Tuathal O'Neill, sons
of Hugh M*Shane. Along with him also was Alister Roe, the people
of Desertcreaght"* (X)ipo]Ar c|\ioc), and many more, amounting to
upwards of 2,000.

May 20, 1643. They killed the Priest who was in the Parish of Maghera (1T1 ACAi]ie
a|ia), Owen Moder (moTOAp-oA) 0*Creely, and his brother, Conor Og,
and some others. Sir Felim pursued them with 13 standards and
many horsemen, but did not overtake them. The day on which
Patrick Moder O'Loughren (O LAoccpen) was buried was
Sunday (An •ootfiriAc m6]\).''*

Thursday, Lord Conway (ConjrAij), Chichester, Blayney, Hamilton, and

May 24, 1643. Montgomery, arrived with more than 5,000 men and five troops of
horse. The Creaghts fled. The General sent two of his horsemen to
guard them, and they took two of the enemy's cavalry, one of whom,
Rory (bAllAc) O'Mellan,"* was taken away by Sir Felim. These
Lords went to Oriel"' (OipjiaHa), as they did not like the Owenites.
Having halted at Monaghan, they sent their people to gather spoil,
and Lord Moore took a great quantity. The manner in which they
divided the booty was this : that each party alternately should have
a park full of cattle. The Scotch endeavoured to drive and thrust the
cows into their own park, and this did not please the English.

May 28, 1643. Colonel Robert Monroe came from Trian Congail (UpiAti congAit)
to Armagh and Benburb. They killed Maurice O'Haghey,*** an old
Doctor, and some others.

111. Eanach-Samer, now Anasamery, between Louf^hgall and Charlemont, about iK miles
from the latter. It is now the properly of Sir William Vemer.— J. W. H.

[Carte speaks of it {Ormonde, i. p. 432) as " Annagh Sawry near Charlemont." — J. S.]

112. A townland and parish in the north of the Barony of Dungannon. The name isHTitten
•01|"e]\C "OA C]\10ch by ih^ Four Masters {^\\\, p. 432).— J. S.

113. This sentence is perhaps a mistranslation, and should read: — "Patrick Moder (i.e.^
TnOT)A]^"6A the gloomy) O'Loughran was buried at Donaghmore." Quoting from lh\s Journal,
Dr. Reeves (Primate Cottons Visitation, p. 12) says, with reference to the O'Loughrans, *' one of
the family is spoken of as being buried at Donaghmore." Except this passage, there is none to
which such a meaning could be attached. The MS. from which this translation was made not
being at present available for inspection (though Dr. Reeves seems to have had the use of it), the
matter rests between him and Mr. Robert Macadam, the translator, which is right. — J. S.

114. UAttAC, freckled.— J. S.

115. As far as Belturbet, Reid^ \. p. 428.— J. W. H.
1x6. O'Hcachaidh.— J. OD.

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Thomas Sanford, one of Sir Felim's Colonels, happened to meet
them, and skirmished with them from Benburb to Charlemont (aca-o
ATI x)A cA]\Ax>), to Killyman (cill tiA tnbAn), to Mountjoy and Money-
more. They plundered Henry M*Rory Boy (bunoe) O'Hagan. Many
were killed by them throughout Killeter (Coill loccApAij)."^

A Council was held by the General of the Ulster army, and by the May 31, 1643.
President, Sir Felim, at [Mullintur] (ttiuIIac An rui|i)"* in Munter Byrne.
They resolved not to leave the country on any account. That whoever
stole a cow or mare, horse or garron, sheep or goat, the value of
these things should be levied off his property, if he had any ; or,
if a poor man, that he should be hanged. Also, whatever persons
should go about drinking out of churns, or raising any disturbance,
should be cudgelled with staves till their back bones were broken
inside of them ; and many other good regulations. There are some
persons in the country, O'Kanes, Devlins, O'Haras, the Iveagh, and
all the Claneboy and the Route (|\urA), who eat mares and horses,
who steal and carry off from the rear of the Heretics cats and
dogs, and eat men.

Sir Felim, with Paul O'Neill, the Guardian of Armagh, and Captain June 2, 1643.
Turlogh 5l^"<5^"i<^ O'Quin, went with horse-carriages to meet the arms
which the King of Spain"^ had sent to Ireland. On Friday, Robert
Stewart, with 4,000 men, came from Inishowen. They wasted and
plundered Clossagh (ah cIoi^mj). As for the General, Owen O'Neill, he
had before this (9th June) ordered the Creaghts to go to the County Long-
ford (Lon5fDO|\r), and they were on the way thither. The enemy came June 13, 1643.
to Clones (CluAineAi]*) on the day of Saint Anthony of Padua,"" and
neither the General nor any person else perceived them until they
were within about two miles of them. The General's regiment, and
four troops of horse surrounding it, met the enemy, who advanced
suddenly. The alarm was sounded, and Sir Felim's regiment came
forward, together with Lieutenant-Colonel Shane O'Neill.'** The
action was very fierce on both sides ; however, the enemy prevailed

117. Carte's narrative may be taken in connection with these two paragraphs: — ** Monroe
marched in May with great expedition and secrecy into the County oi Armagh to surprise Owen
O'Neile in his quarters at Anna/^h Sawry, near Charlemont. O'Neile himself was the first that
discovered them, as he was hunting, at the distance of two miles, and about four from his quarters,
whiiher he immediately retired ; and, drawing off his small party of 400 men, after an hour's dis-
pute with Monroe's whole force in a lane enclosed with quicksets leading to Charlemont, made
his retreat thither without the loss of a man. Monroe seized the passes about that fortress, in-
tending to make what preys he could in the country ; but one of his parties being the next day
attacked by Lieutenant-Colonel Sandford, an hundred of his men killed, imd the prey re-
covered, he thought fit to return into the County of Antrim" (See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 432.) —
J. S.

118. Mullintur, parish of Aghaloo, Co. Tyrone. — J. W. H.

[Muinlir Birn, a district in the south of the Barony of Dungannon adjoining Trough, a
territory in Co. Monaghan, and Toaghie, now the Barony of Armagh. See the Leabhar na
g-Ceart, or Book 0/ Rights, p. 151. — J. S.]

119. Philip the Fourth. Paul O'Neill, i.e., "y« postilian ffryer " mentioned in note 59.— J. S.

120. St. Anthony of Padua's Day, and the 13th June, the date of this entry, are the same. —
J. S.

121. "An old officer who had been 25 years in foreign service." (See Carle's Ormonde,
i. p. 433)— J. S.

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He encamped a number of soldiers and cavalry round the garrison of
Jamestown (Rosscommon) (bokile femuif), to guard the Creaghts."'

George Monroe, (perhaps and) Lieutenant-General Leslie, collected June 29, 1643.
a great host, including the son of Lord Leven'^ (LAbAi]^), and the son
of Randal (llinnel) Stewart. They crossed the River Bann, having
along with them Colonel Conolly (605^11), that is, the man who turned
informer in Dublin, and through whom Lord Enniskillen was taken.***
They proceeded to Mountjoy, to Killeter (Coill iocca|\ai5), to
Clanaghrie (CluAin eAC|\e), and to Brantry, so that any of the natives
who had remained in the country, and were unable to fly to distant
places, lost every thing they possessed. They encamped at Carnteel;
on Saint Peter's day they burnt Bally Turlogh O'Neill (boili coi|i-
veoklbAij 1 Heill), called the castle.*® From that they went to Bally- July i, 1643.
donnelly, and Con M*Art McDonnell, the accursed (ttiac n^ mAltAcc),
delivered up to them the island of Ballydonnelly on Saturday. O'Neill
M*Felim McDonnell, a Franciscan Friar, was taken ; he was sent to
Carrickfergus (Ca]A]a<m5 V^r5"r^)» ^^^ ^^^i^ in confinement 17 months.

They proceeded to Dungannon, and demanded the surrender of July 3, 1643.
the town, which was refused. Next day soldiers were sent to fire on
the town, and again to demand a surrender. Brian bui-oe (yellow)
Hughes"** (O Iiao-oa), an old veteran, was taken in Dungannon, and a
Franciscan Friar, named Patrick O'Hamill, was the Father Confessor."*

A large force under Colonel Robert Monroe, Lord Chichester. Lord July 4, 1643.
Conway (Coni-VMJ), Lord Hamilton, and Lord Montgomery, crossed
the Avonmore (Blackwater) to Dungannon. They pitched their tents
at Gortmerron"^ (5^r^ ITIeApAinn). Their numbers amounted to
5,000 foot and 1,000 horse.

On seeing so great a force the garrison was seized with fear, and July 7» 1643.
surrendered on receiving liberty to carry away their arms and movable
effects. On the fifth day after, a Scotch garrison was placed in the
town. Brian M'Donchadh b|\A"0Ai5 (the rogue) O'Hagan delivered
up the island of Lough (Loc Luca), without any necessity for it, to

the Scotch. It was resolved by the Council of the forces to pursue the

126. Jamestown. Co. Leitrim, must be meant. Jamestown, County Roscommon, was an
insignificant place, but Jamestown. Co. Leitrim, had a castle, built in 1623 by Sir Charles Coote,
which was taken in 1645 ^^X ^^^ Earl of Carlingford, and again in 1689 by the Enniskilleners under
Colonel Lloyd. (See the Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland ^ ii. p. 332.) — J. S.

127. Leslie, who was afterwards Earl of Leven. — J. W. H.

128. Conolly, or O'Connolly, seceded to Protestantism in his youth. He eventually became
a Presbyterian elder. (See Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland ^ i. pp. 310, 311.)
He was killed in 1649 by a Mr. Hamilton, whose brother he had murdered. In 1662, /r200 per
annum was secured, out of confiscated estates, for the support of his orphans, Arthur and Martha
O'Connolly. (See Meehan's Confederation of Kilkenny, pp. 88, 89 ) According to the British
Ofticer (Irish Warr of 1641, pp. 93, 94) Conolly killed Mr. Hamilton's brother in a duel. — J. S.
Conolly had left the Presbyterian Church before his death and become a * ' Separatist. " — W. T,
Latimer, B.A.

129. Castletown. — J. W. H. Castletown Bawn, or generally *' The Bawn."— W. T. L.

130. G'Hay.— J. CD.

O' Haedha. — "This name is very common throughout the Province of Ulster, but now
anglicised Hughes. In the south of Ireland it is variously anglicised O'Hea, O'Hee, O'Hay, and
Hayes." (See O Donovan's /^[7ttr A/aj/^rrj, iv. pp. 1203-4).— J. S.

131. It is not clear what is implied by the concluding part of this sentence. Irish prisoners
were not allowed Father Confessors by the enemy. — J. S.

132. Gortmerron adjoins Dungannon. — ^J. W, H.

224 Old Belfast.

General, Owen O'Neill, and to take the Creaghts from him. One de-
tachment of them was therefore sent ofiF to Truagh and to Clones
and Cavan. A second party went to Kinard,*** to Monaghan, and
Cavan, and thence to Slieve Brus. Seven hundred horsemen were sent
in pursuit of the Ulster-men, and as they did not fall in with them,
they returned to Bun (50 bun), and resolved to go back to their own
stations. They were in Monaghan that night.

I may now make some mention of Charlemont (-Aca-o ati -oa cA|\At))
where the harvest was now approaching with a large force, composed
of English, Scotch, and Irish arrived at this town."* He planted four
cannon at Dunavally'*' (X)un x)a bAllA) against the place. There
were attacks and skirmishes every day, the Scotch always losing great
numbers. The thought struck Captain Niall O'Neill M*Shane
MTurlogh M*Henry M*Shanethat it might be well to scour the roads
which were at some distance round the town. One day they happened
upon a company of horse and foot coming from Mountjoy to the
besieging army : they immediately attacked them, killed five soldiers
and three horses, and wounded two horsemen. They took from them
wine, beer, vinegar, whiskey, two tents, some spades and mattocks, a
cart full of meal, butter and cheese, as much as two horses would draw,
and a quantity of linen and woollen clothes. After this capture, the
besiegers extended their encampment on all sides of the town, so that
no way of egress for the garrison was left. However, a sally was made
in the night-time across the river in boats, and fourteen men were
killed before a word was spoken.

As for the General, Owen O'Neill, he placed soldiers between the
Creaghts and the garrison of Jamestown.'** The garrison of Elphin
arrived on a plundering expedition, and carried off with them horses,
cows, and captives, and, among the rest, Brian MacCuconnacht. Some
men were killed.
Aug. 2, 1643. Colonel Richard O'Farrell, of the County Longford, carried off a
considerable booty of arms, clothes, money, and ?

He killed two young horsemen of the O'Quins.

The General brought the Creaghts across the Shannon westward
to the top of Brus,'*^ in Breffny, and Sir Felim come from Kilkenny to
the same place. The ambassador of Pope Urban V.''* arrived

133. Kinard, i.e., Caledon. — J. S.

134. Perhaps this sentence means, that as the harvest was coming on, a force of English, &c. ,
came to Charlemont. The British Officer (see his /risA Warr of 1641, p. 34) may help us to
understand it. "This Harvest," he says, " the Scottish Army, the Lord Conway's Regiment, the
Lord Donegall's Regiment, and our Regiment were all in the counties of Ardmagh, Tyrone, and
Londonderry, reaping, threshing, and burning all the Grain the Irish sowed, which was
plenty, &c." — ^J. S. For com taken by the Irish, see present vol., p. 55. — Editor.

135. On a hill called Leager Hill, in the townland of Corr and Dunavally, overhanging and
commanding the old fort of Charlemont, are yet the remains of this position. It is now a grave-
yard, but the trench is complete. — J. W. H.

136. Jamestown, Co. Lei trim. — J. S.

137. Now Bruise Mountain, in Tullyhunco Barony, Co. Cavan — J. W. H.
[TuUyhunco was the Mac Kernans' country. See O'Daly's Tribes of Ireland, p. 93. — J. S.]

138. Recte, Urban the Eighth. (See note 100.) The ambassador was the pro-nuncio.
Father Pier Francesco Scarampo, priest of the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. —
J. S.

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from Rome to observe the progress of the war, and bringing some
assistance to the Irish,

Brian O'Neill M*Art Og and Randal McDonnell (ITIac t)OTTinAiU) ^^g- '4.1643
delayed behind the Creaghts. Captain Hanly brought a party of the
enemy on them, when Randal was killed and Brian deprived of all his
effects.

A Council of the Ulster Chiefs, with the General, was held to Aug. 25, 1643.
determine whether they should come to the province of Ulster, or go
to Meath, to procure corn. They decided at length upon Meath, and
leaving Slieve Brus, they went to the Church of Lurgan (UeAmpoll n^
LopgAti) to Lough Ramor"* (Loc |AeAtfiA]\) and [Balgeeth] (X)|\oi5eA'o
bel AC gAoite).^*^ The General sent a messenger to [Cloon] (cIuaiia
b]\ei|:ni)'^^ demanding the surrender of the town, and the garrison,
upon seeing the strength of the besiegers, capitulated, and received
honourable terms.

Inish O'Linn"'' (Itiif 1 luinn) was garrisoned by Shane 0*Hagan. Aug. 12,1643.
The enemy came and called on them to surrender, which they refused.
They then stopped up a stream that ran out of the lake,^*^ and turned
the course of another into it, so that they contrived to inundate the
island. The garrison kept watch in the island-house, and one of their
men was killed by a cannon-ball while on guard. However, they
refused to give up the island on any account. One man, in attempt-
ing to swim away, got his legs broken. The enemy at last departed.

The Castle of Killallon'*" (CiU AlUiin) and the Castle of Balrath'**
surrendered to Sir Felim, and the garrisons received good quarter, viz.,
their arms, clothes, and effects.

A message from the General was sent to Ballybeg, ordering the
garrison to surrender, but they returned him a refusal. The soldiers
immediately invested the town, and planted the cannon against it.
The cannonade began, and soon the edifice was broken down and
breaches made. The garrison now asked quarter, but were refused, Aug. 30, 1643.
and ordered to come forth and submit to mercy. The whole of them
came out, being 180 in number, between horse and foot soldiers. The
son of Sir Henry Tichborne (Uio]^beipn) and Captain Cardiff
(Co]\]A'oub)'^ were taken.

139. Slieve Bruise, the parish of Lurgan, and Lough Ramor, all in Co. Cavan. By the
Four Masters (i. p. lo) Lough Ramor is called Locll 17luin|\eniOHl.— J. S.

140. Balgeeth, in Mealh. — J. O'D.

141. Cloon, in Leitrim. — J. O'D.

[By the Four Masters (iii. pp. 348-9) the place is called CiuAin COnmAlcne.— J. S.

142. The island in Lough-inis-O'Lynn, Co. Derry, barony of Loujjhinsholin. An O'Lynn Is
said to have founded a monastery hereabouts. (See Primate Cotton s Visitation, pp. 76-7.) — J. S.

143. It is a small lake about 220 yards in length and 179 in width. (See Primate Coltons
Visitation, p. 76.) — J. S.

144. Near Old Castle.— J. O'D.

145. Balrath, Co. Westmeath, is called DlLe |tArA by the Four Masters (iv. p. 1164),

who make the first mention of ordnance in their Annals in connection with the destruction of its
castle in 1488. — J. S.

146. CopjA "Oub, the nearest approach that O'Mellan could make to the sound of this
Captain's name, happens to mean Black Snout, or Beak. — J. S.

226 Old Belfast.

Sept. I, 1643. The Castle of (bAile TpiA-oAin ?) was taken, and a son

of Sir William Parsons, from Dublin. At Athboy (boile Ach bui-oi)
were taken by Captain Smith and two gentlemen. The monastery of
Nenagh (mAinnxi|\ An AonAij) and the Castle^*' of [Assoon] (t)Aite
eA]"uin) on the Boyne. The Castle of (bAile lAuinitep)

also was taken and burnt immediately.

Sept. 8, 1643. On the festival of our Blessed Lady^*® the Creaghts arrived from
Kells (ceAnAnnuf)"* along with Sir Felim at Port , and

( ). Siege was laid to Portlester^** (pope

teAj^cAp), one of the enemy's posts, and it was surrendered to the
General.

Lord Moore now came in pursuit of the General, his forces, and
Creaghts, determined that not a man or beast of them should escape
from his troops, for he had collected great numbers of Scotch and
English by his promises of great pay and a share in the plunder.
There were probably five or six thousand.

The General raised intrenchments at the Earl's Mill Ford (\\c An
TTiuitlinn iajvLa),*" and the cannon and small fire-arms were got in
readiness. Our enemies advanced confidently to the bank of the ford
(50 hup An aca), but were repulsed with great slaughter. Lord Moore
himself^" fell by a ball from a cannon of Owen O'Neills, together
with 1 10 men and nine horses. This great army retreated in great
confusion and without plunder.

Three Captains, three Lieutenants, and six Sergeants (of the
enemy) declared that if a Sergeant-major and 300 men were given to
them of the flower of the army, they would undertake to seize the
town in eight days. All they required was granted. They assailed

147. Assoon, in Meath. — J. O'D.

[No doubt this is the same as " lialsonne," mentioned by Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 448) in his
enumeration of castles taken by Owen Roe O'Neill — " Killelan, Balrath, Ballibeg, Be«kliffe,
Balsonne, and Ardsallagh." — J. S.]

148. The Sih September is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.— J. S.

149. CeAnAnni1]\ i.e., head fort, or residence. The Marquis of Headfort takes his title,
and that of his seat, from the old name of Kells, translated. — J. S.

150. In Carte's Ormonde (i. p. 449) Portlester takes the form of " Port-lesterford upon the
Blackwater."— J. S.

151. The Earl's mill ford. Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 449) speaks of it as " the Earl's milne, at
some distance from the ford. ' Owen Roe O'Neill, he says, stationed a Captain with 60 men
there. — J. S.

152. This was Charles, second Viscoimt Drogheda. Lodge {Peerage^ ii. p. 104) says he was
slain, 7th August, 1643.— J. W. H.

[The Rev. Alexander Clogy, chaplain of horse, states in his Life of Bedell (p. 176), that he
saw the fatal bullet, 61b. weight, taken out of Lord Moore's body, " being much sp>ent (by
grazing) ere it came thither, Sept. 11, 1643." According to Carte's Ormonde {^\. p. 449), the attack
on "the Earl's milne, " and the fall of Lord Moore, took place on the 12th Sept. The British
Officer {Irish Warr of 1641, p. 33) relates that Lord Moore "was viewing what ground to make
a Work on, advantageous against the Pass and the Mill : which Mac Art " [i.e., Owen Roe, who
was son of Art] " observing, looked through his prospective Glass, after which he levelled a gun
vnth his own hands, and caused a Cannoneer to fire it, which Shot most strangely killed the
Lord Moore. Upon which they put him into a Waggon all mangled, and marched home to
Drogheda. The news of which came not to Mac Arts ears till Night, at which he was hij^hly
concerned, as being very sorry for him, at least he seemed to be so." If we may believe what the
British Officer was " credibly told," some of Lord Moore's men who fell in this action were very
singularly formed. See his statement about them. — ^J. S.

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the place confidently, and were convinced that the Irish could not
hold out against them. They surrounded the Bawn,^*' and finding no
mode of entrance, they turned back and took possession of a sconce***
which was the wall of an orchard. The country people of the neigh-
bourhood came near to watch the engagement on both sides. The
cannons that were within were fired on them, having been charged full
with musket balls, and a dreadful havoc was made among them, that
is, among the people on the other side of the river, to the north.

The commander of the fort now consulted with his officers on the
propriety of giving the besiegers battle. They approved of the pro-
posal, and the soldiers were accordingly sent out under the command of
two officers. They marched forward alongside of the sconce, and a
fire was immediately begun on both sides. They then drew their
swords and long knives (j^geAriA), and, falling on the enemy, wounded
and stabbed them in all directions. The Scotch at length gave way :
the Sergeant-Major, the three Captains, and all the other officers were
killed. They fled into the bog, and here it was not a matter of in-
difference to the Clann Maolin (clAnn tfiAoitin)**' who should be fore-
most. One of them put forward his musket, and had not raised the
butt end of it when he was shot in the shoulder blade by the man
who was behind him, and tumbled head foremost into the bog. It is
the opinion of those who saw them that twenty men did not escape
out of the 300 who marched against the Castle. On that day were
killed Donald M'Vittie and Magnus O'Corra, an officer, two of the
best soldiers in both armies. Leave was granted in the evening to
bury their dead.

Sir Robert Stewart, Sir William Cole, and Sergeant-Major Waring
encamped alongside the Castle and river in the fields. Their forces
amounted to 4,500 men, and they remained in this camp eight weeks.
During this period they lost 1,000 men all but three, while the com-
mander of the Castle only lost, between officers and soldiers, eight
men.

General Owen despatched letters of truce to the Governor of
Charlemont (^cAt) An "oa cajaax)) and to Robert Monroe, stipulating
that they should evacuate the country and retire into the towns. The
Scotch (in consequence of this treaty) retired to Trian Congail (UpiAn
congAil), bringing with them all the grain they could find in the
country. Monroe also departed. The Creaghts now, with the General,
set off for Tyrone. Garrisons were left by the Scotch in Dungannon,
Mountjoy, Arboe {^]\x) bo), and Moneymore. The people gathered
into the country after the departure of the Scotch, and some ploughing
was done, each man a little for himself. They remained there
unmolested till summer.

153. Bawn, i.e., a walled enclosure, usually with towers at the angles. Within it vras the
residence. On Bawns. see Alfred Lee's interesting NoUs in the Ulster Journal of Archaology^
vi. pp. 125-135. Dalway's Bawn at Bellahill, near Carrickfergus, is a typical example. — J. S.

154. It seems strange that a *' sconce," which was a small fort, should be described as *' the
wall of an orchard." Perhaps there is something omitted.— J. S.

155. The family of Malone, near Clonmacnoise, Co. Westmeath. — ^J. W. H.

228 Old Belfast.

Feb. 12, 1644. Robert Monroe gave up possession of Dungannon and Mountjoy
to Lord Chichester, who came and garrisoned them. Monroe was
going at the time to /"^ but afterwards remained, and he

then regretted having given these places up, since he was remaining
himself.

May 8, 1644. A written order arrived from the General to the Creaghts, to travel
night and day till they came to the County Armagh. The Friars of
Armagh came to the Fews (|:eAt)A) with the Guardian, Paul O'Neill.
Thence they went to Iniskeen (^r\^y cAoin).

May 14, 1644. Colonel Monroe went to Belfast (beiil i:ei]\]xe) and obliged Lord
Chichester to leave the town.'*® His Lordship set off along with his
son. Captain Chichester, for Dublin, and nothing with them but their
horses.

May 23, 1644. The General, with the cavalry and infantry, came to Lurgan-boy
(lyU|\5Ain buit)i). All the Creaghts went to Farney (peAjintfiAij),
to Clonkee (Cloinn [ati] Caoic), and Armaghbreag"* (^imm-ACA
bjieige).

May 30, 1644. Sir Felim stayed in Charlcmont (^ca-o ah -oa ca]\a'6) with a
garrison of considerable strength. . . . delivered up Dungannon
to him, and he immediately placed a garrison of his own there.

A Commissary, namely, Thomas M'Tiernan,^*^ the companion of
Donoghy Mor O'Daly, came to the Friars in the Parish of Donagh-
cloney (X)oTfinAc CIuaha). Thence he went to the Parish of
Donaghmoyne'*' (x)0TfinAi5 triAijen), and then westwards to Armagh -
breague (<\pt)m aca b]\ei5e), to the Creaghts at Kells (CeAnn Ancu]^), and
to Navan (Uauti), to Ardbraccan^*^ (<\|a"o bpeACAin), and Port Lester
(popr l/eA]XAi|A).

July 2, 1644. A Nuncio arrived at Kilkenny from the Pope,^^ and a message

came to Sir Felim from the Council, desiring him to leave Charlemont
f-AcAt) An -OA cA]\AT)) and to join the army. After setting fire to
Dungannon fort he went to Port Lester (po|\c LeA]XAi]\), where the
General was.

156. See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 488. — J. S.

157. Scotland.— J. W. H.

158. See J^etd, ii. p. 471. — J. W. H.

159. Armagh breague is in the Parish of Lisnadill, Barony of Upper Fews, County
Armagh. — J. W. H.

[Lurganboy is a townland in Co. Tyrone : Farney, a barony in the south of Co. Monaghan :
Clonkee, a barony in the east of Co. Cavan. — J. S.]

160. MacTieman, now Kieman. — J. O'D.

[The Mac Tiernans were settled in TuUyhunco Barony, Co. Cavan. That bitter satirist,
i^nghus O'Daly, describes them as starvelings, and absurdly states that their fathers, mothers,

sons, daughters, horses, hounds, and cats were all blind. — CAOC ! See his Tribes of Ireland,
PP- 5a. S3— J- S.]

161. This is unquestionably the Parish of Donagh, in the County Monaghan, in which lies
the town of Glasslough.— J. W. H.

162. Ardbraccan, in Co. Meath. St. Braccan is said to have erected a religious house here.
Ardbraccan had a strong castle, which was the residence of the Bishops of Meath in former times.
(See the Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, i. 50.) — J. S.

163. This was Father Scarampo. (See Moran's Memoirs of Oliver Plunket, p. 4.) — ^J. S.

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On Saint John's Eve,^" 1602, O'Neill burnt Dungannon at the hour
of retiring to bed.

On Saint John's Eve. 1644, Sir Felim burnt it at the same hour.

The Earl of Castlehaven arrived from Dublin unknown to the
Sassenaghs, for he was a Catholic, and joined the Irish, who welcomed
him joyfully. The Council of Kilkenny sent, under his command,
2,000 foot and six troops of horse to the assistance of the General of
Ulster against the Scotchmen : and they reached the place in the
County Meath where Owen O'Neill and the Creaghts were. The
Earl was informed of the enemy's movements : that all the Scotch,
English, and such Irish as had received quarter from them in the
province, were assembled in one body in order to banish the Irish
natives completely ; that they were now in Longford, and had burnt
it, together with Granard and Bally league*"* (bet ac Iaoj) ; that their
number amounted to 19,000 men, and that they were now advancing
to Finac (P'ot) An aca).***

The General and the Little EarP*^ sent three troops of horse and Aug. 5, 1644.
200 foot soldiers to guard the bridge of Finae (pot) An aca), com-
manded by Brian O'Neill M*Quin M*Art puA-o (the red-haired), son of
Ferdinand'**® (ttiac An pimojACA). The Scotch advanced to the
guarded roads and succeeded in forcing their way. However, in the
contest. Captain Graham and eight of his relations were killed. On
the other side, Brian O'Neill was wounded and two of his troopers
slain, and Gerald jApb (the rough), from Meath, was also killed.

Finae (pot) An aca) was the Earl of Meath's town.

These forces proceeded to Kells (CeAnAnt)u|"), to Navan (Uaitti),
and to Ardee (ac y)]\ t)iAt)), and, separating from each other at
Dundalk (t)eAl5Ain), part went to Trian Congail (c|UAn congAtl), to the
O'Kanes' country^** (CACAnAcc), to Tyrconnell, to Enniskillen, to
Drogheda, and to Dundalk (f]AAt) bAtle). At this time the M*Garrys

164. St. John's Eve, 23rd June. This event is not recorded by the Four Masters, — J, S.

165. Ballyleague, Parish of Clunturkert, Co. Roscommon. — J. W. H.

The raid made by Colonel Monroe at this juncture is fully described in a rare Commonwealth
tract in the Editor's possession, entitled, " A Full Relation of the Late Expedition of the Right
Honourable the Lord Monroe, &c." London: August 27, 1644. It concludes as follows : — "After
the writing hereof, advertisement come unto Mr. Major Rawden, that intelligence is this 23 of
July, 1644, come unto him that the Irish Army, consisting of 15,000 horse and foot, are upon
their march onwards, and as far advanced as Dundalk." — Editor.

166. yiox) An ArA.— J. OD.

167. Castlehaven, called " Little," in contradistinction to the Earl (created Marquis) of
Antrim. There was great competition, about this period, between Castlehaven and Antrim in
reference to the supreme command. (See Carte's Ormonde, i. p. 496.)— J. S.

168. Ferdoragh. — J. S.

169. Barony of Keenaght, Co. Derry, originally held by the O* Conors, who were driven
out by the O'Kanes before the Norman invasion. Keenaght is called Cianachta "of the

abundant store," 6 ChlAnT)ACCA in r|\om choCAtt) in the Lead Aar na g-Ceart, or Book
of Rights, p. 122. iEnghus O'Daly ( Tribes of Ireland, pp. 56, 57) slanders the O'Kanes as —

The O'Cahans of the ignoble deeds,
Eirin's idlers— I will satirize.

CACAnAij nA 5-ceimeAnn tAg
SgpACAnAij CipeAnn AO|t|.'AT).— J. s.

230 Old Belfast.

(muinrni ca]^|\ac ati eAjy^), who were all fishermen, were killed at the
waterfall, Carrickaness^' (^n 6^]^^), near Maydown (tnA-o An -ouin).

The General and the Little Earl*'^ marched in pursuit of the
enemy, and brought the Creaghts along with them to Tyrone, that is,
to Portmore.^^* Their forces amounted to 7,000 foot and 1,000 horse.
The garrison of Charlemont (^ca-o An -oa cA|\At)) refused to sur-
render the town to the army of the kingdom until they should know
the will of Sir Felim, who was then in Kilkenny. Finding they could
not take the place, they proceeded to Tandragee, and there erected
their tents and booths. The General was informed that some of the
enemy were at Dromore Iveagh (X)puiin ni6]\ ib ga-oac). The Earl,
with a large detachment, marched towards them on Saint Clare's
day,^'* and, attacking them, killed upwards of 200 men, between horse
and foot, and took Captain Blair^^* prisoner. They returned the same
day. Letters arrived from the Council, and from Sir Felim, authorising
them to give up Charlemont (^ca-o An -oa cajiax)) to the King's Army.
The troops left Tandragee and came to Dunavally*"* (x)im -oa bAtLcv),
where they erected tents, booths, and scaffolding. General Owen was
seized with fever, by which he was detained here.

Aug. 15, 1644, The enemy approached near Armagh: and sent .... to
plunder Toaghie"* (Uuac Viacai-o) and Lisnafeedy*^ (^t Pca-oa). They
fell upon the rere of the Creaghts, and carried off Kathleen Hovenden,
the wife of Turlogh O'Neill. They brought her with them, together
with the horses loaded with baggage.

Aug. 19,1644. Soldiers were sent to guard the ford of the Blackwater river (AchA
nA hAbAnn t)uibe), between the Creaghts and the enemy. Captain
Davis went without orders to reconnoitre the enemy: he was wounded
and taken prisoner, and some of his troop were killed.

170. Carrickaness lies opposite Benburb on the County Armagh side. It adjoins May-
down.— J. W. H.

171. Castlehaven. — J. S.

172. Portmore, now Blackwatertown. — J. W. H. There are the remains of a crannoge
here, as Mr. J. O'Neill, C.E., informs me. — Editor.

173. St. Clare's day, lath August.— J. S.

174. Captain Blair taken prisoner, 12th August. Reid (i. p. 475). — J. W. H.

[Carte {Ormonde, i. p. 515) states that the E^l of Castlehaven lost only six or eight men on
this occasion, with some few wounded. — J. S.]

175. The townland "Corr and Dunjivally" adjoins Charlemont. In it is a moated rath
called Leaguer Hill, now converted mto a burying-ground, and from which Colonel Callimot
beleaguered Charlemont in 1690. — J. W. H.

The fortifications of Charlemont are well shown in Tindal's Continuation of Rapin's History c
London. 1744. On the same sheet is the Map of Belfast reproduced on p. 80, Town Book
0/ Bel/as/.— EonoK.

176. The territory of "Toaghie" is now known as the name of a manor in the Parish of
Derrynoose or Madden. It comprised the town of Keady, and is situate in the Baronies of
Armagh and Tureny. in the Co. Armagh. In 1609 these lands were found by Inquisition to be
held by Sir Henry M'Tirlagh O'Neale, Knt., his ancestors being seized by virtue of a gift from
the Archbishop of Armagh. — J. W. H.

177. Lisnafeedy is a townland in the district, Parish of Eglish, Barony of Tureny, County
Armagh. — ]. W. H.

[It takes its name from LlO]% a fort, and ^e^X> or j:!!), whistling— the "fort of the
whistling;" in allusion to the fairy music said to have been heard there. Several places in
Ireland owe their names to a similar circumstance. See Joyce's Origin and History 0/ Irish
Names of Places, i. p. 192. — J. S.]

Narrative of the Wars of 164 i. 231

Henry O'Neill MTuathal was sent to the top of Claneboy Aug. 20, 1644.
(clAnn Ao-oA bint)i) to waste the country about the mouth of the Stran-
millis^^® (f]AucAin liiilif), and he carried off a great many cows and
other booty.

Robert Monroe and Lieutenant- General Earl Leslie'^ are at
Armagh with 14,000 men, in opposition to the Irish, of whom there
were 7,000 in Dunavally (*Oun -oa bAlUx).

Turlogh Og O'Neill came to an agreement with Colonel to

collect the Creaghts between Dungannon and Charlemont (>Aca-6 ati
•OA cA]AA-6), and threatening with the penalty of hanging any one who
disobeyed the order. When the Creaghts were assembled, four or
five thousand cows were set apart for the Earl of Castlehaven and his
men. This flesh meat, however, on account of their scanty supply of
bread, injured their health.^®® They were attacked by sickness, trouble
(cjAeAblAoit)),^" and the flux, which carried off a thousand men.^"

Sir Felim's people, together with Colonel Sandford, Rory Maguire, Sept. i, 1644.
and the people of Oriel (GijAgiAll), marched against Enniskillen,
whence they carried off 204 cows.

A party of the enemy went from Armagh to the Fews (po-o) and
killed Shane O'Connellan, a Priest of the country ; they carried off
plunder along with them.

Another detachment from the enemy, under a Colonel named
M*Rodin,*" crossed the Blackwater by night at the mouth of
Aghakip^" (bel acIi cip) into Munter Byrne (tTluinci]A bi]\n). There

178. " Stran-millis " was in the district of Malone. adjoining Belfast, on which was erected a
castle by Sir Moses Hill, the ancestor of the Marquis of Downshire.— J. W. H.

["Stranmillis" comes from |'puCAn, a streamlet, and miLir, sweet, pleasant. — J. S.]
(See present volume, p. 117, for a full account of it by W. Pinkerton, F.S.A. — Editor.)

179. General Leslie was not made Earl Leslie, but Earl of Leven, See Malcolm Laing's
History of Scotland, iii. p. 221. He was illegitimate and illiterate, and is said never to have got
beyond the letter G in the alphabet. See Hill's Macdonnells of Antrim, p. 60. — ^J. S.

180. The British Officer {Irish Warr of 1641, p. 35) states that in consequence of the
Scotch and English forces having reaped the helds, the Irish " were necessitated to buy their own
Grain at dear Rates from the Scottish or British, or want it." The enemy experienced a want of
what the Irish had in superabundance — flesh meat. "We," he says, "had Bread enough, but
Cows and Butter was scarce amongst us." — J. S,

181. U|ieAt)l/ACr, trouble, languor, weakness. — J. S.

182. The British Officer, who mentions the Irish loss from having to eat flesh without bread
or salt {Irish Warr of 1641, p. 41), censures Castlehaven for marching into " a waste Country, as
the County of Ardmagh, Dunderagee, and Charlemounl, and not to the planted Countries where
his Enemies lay dispersed in their Quarters, &c." Owen Roe was much blamed as C.ostlehaven's
counsellor. " They said his Ambition was the cause solely, for that he was not well satisfied he
had not the Command of the Army to himself^considering himself not to be the worst soldier,
with which several old Soldiers does (!) acquiesce." — J. S. For Boate's account of " Leaguer
Sickness," see Town Book of Belfast, p. 315. — Editor.

183. Qu. George Rawdon, who was a Major in Colonel Hill's regiment of horse. Reid,
i. p. 488, and Montgomery MSS.^ p. 163. — J. W. H. See present volume, p. 124, for account
of G. Rawdon.— Editor.

184. Ingn. at Dungannon in the reign of Chas. I., No. 50, Wm. Lord Charlemont was
found seized, tnter alia, of Clonarbe, Lisserdorcloon, Kenigmore, Aghakippa, and Knockroe,
which are called by the name of the Grange, Clonarbe. There is a stone cross still remaining
here, probably erected by the Monks of St. Peter and Paul, Armagh, to whom the Grange
originally belonged. Another Ingn. , sped at Armagh, Sept., 1614, gives Guy-bealakipp river as
one of the boundaries, and the Blackwater as another, of this Grange, which lies between. Caledon
and Benburb. — J. W. H.

232 Old Belfast.

were five troops of them. They saw a number of cavalry near them,
which were the Irish retreating from them. However, a skirmish took
place, in which Con O'Neill M'Neill M*Art Og was killed, and Art
O'Neill MTurlogh M'Henry Na Garthan (ha gAjACAnn) was taken
prisoner and received quarter : but he was murdered, through revenge,
by the son of Lieutenant Graham, at the north side of the Lough of
Knocknacloy (too cninc a cUnce).*" Alexander Hovenden was slain
between that and the Oona-water (>dbAnn n^ hun^). They killed
likewise 1 2 men of the Creaghts, and carried a great deal of booty
away with them.

Lewis O'More, a man from Leinster, and some of Castlehaven's
horsemen who saw the murder committed, followed the marauders,
along with Turlogh O'Neill, son of the murdered man : they killed
eight and took prisoners five of the enemy.

The enemy came^** and took i6 horses from the Earl's guard.
They also carried off three or four captives, and they left a certain
officer stark naked except his boots.

Whenever the Earl of Castlehaven's men were sent out to plunder,
they would scarcely go half way, when they would turn back to their
own camp through fear and cowardice, without having done the least
service.

About this time the Garrison of Mountjoy came in search of
plunder to Clanaghrie^®^ (clAnn eACjAe), and were successful, but Felim
of the Wars (^n cogAit)) O'Neill took it from them and killed 12 of
them.
Sept. 13, 1644. As the Earl of Castlehaven perceived that his men were retro-
grading daily, falling into sickness and weakness, cowardice and
death, he resolved to depart to the provinces of Leinster and Munster,
and this determination was put in execution.^®^ Owen O'Neill offered
to supply 300 cows and 700 barrels of corn if they would stay two
nights more in the camp : but it was only like tying sand with twigs
to ask that of them. The General sent orders to the Chiefs of the
Creaghts to withdraw to Sliabh Beag^h and to Truagh (U]\ioca).

In the evening, powder and ball were given to the soldiers. They
pretended to be drawing faggots to Kishabuoy^®" (ceAj^Ac bin-oe), as if
they were about to attack the enemy that very night. The enemy's

185. Knocknacloy is in the extreme south of the Parish of Clonfecle, Co. Tyrone, lying in
the fork where the river Oona empties itself into the Blackwater. — J. W. H.

186. The enemy came, &c.?— J. CD.

187. Clanaghrie was a district in Tyrone, bordering the S. E. of Lough Neagh, containing
the present Parish of Clonoe. — J. W. H.

[Pynnar's Survey of Ulster, 1618-19, says :— " Sir Francis Ansby, Kt., hath four hundred and
eighty acres called Clanaghrie." See Harris's Hibemica, p. 210. — J. S.]

188. The British Officer [Irish W'arr 0/1641, pp. 40, 41) says : — " At this rate Castlehaven-
was all this time, having at last no provision left, nor no supply suffered to come to him from
Leinster or Conaught by our Army, was glad to eat Flesh without Bread or Salt, which so gave
the Lax to his men that they were dying, till at last necessity made them stale away in night
time, and so they escaped to Leinster and Munster." — J. S.

189. Kishabuoy was a marsh at the end of Charlemont leading to LoughgaU. It is still so
called.— J. W. H.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 233

scouts perceived all this, and gave warning to Monroe. His people
were much terrified at the tidings. They resolved to send a detach-
ment to Tandragee with their baggage-waggons, and to remain them-
selves to guard the horses and arms. But matters were worse than
this (as it turned out), for it was our own people who were flying.

The General and the Earl, in the darkness of the night, marched Sept. 14, 1644.
with their forces over the bridge of Charlemont (>AcAt) An -oa cA]\At))
to Benburb, Glasslough, through Oriel (OijajiaII), and to Ballyna-
cloch'^ (bAile iiA 5-cloc). They got from Philip O'Reilly and the
Chief of the O'Reillys 200 cows.^*^ From thence they proceeded to
Ballyhayes (be^l AchA Iiai]^), through Breffny, and westwards : and on
Good Friday they took^^* the province of Ulster. i

As for Monroe, he remained in the camp five weeks, iieing
assured that the Irish army had left the country, he sent messengers
to the top of Sliabh na Maol (f li^b nA ttiaoI), near Brantry, to examine
all the country round. They returned with the certain assurance that
all the army and the Creaghts had departed. Ballyveagh^^ (bAile nA
mbiACAc) was burned. Monro marched to Tynan (UAomen),^*^ and October,i644.
there encamped. They then gathered in all the corn they could seize
to the distance of twelve miles round the camp. Here they stayed
till the Festival of Saint Matthew the Evangelist.^*'

After this the army separated, part going to Tyrconnell,'*' to the
O'Kanes' country j^**^ and to the Route :'** while Monro himself with

190. Sir Bryan M'Mahon, Kt., was seized, inter alia, of an annual rent of /i 3 6s. 8d.,
payable out of the ballybetagb of Balleneclogh, also Ballysatrossan, in the Barony> of Dartry and
Co. Monagban. {Inquisition, taken at Monagban, 29 Oct., 1624.)-— J. W. H.

[The ballybetagb (bAlLe biACAC, a victualler's town) was the largest measure of land,
"and generally contained four quarters, which, being very variable in their extent, there was no
fixed standard for their complex . . .In the County of Monagban this denomination
generally contained 16 tates. . . . The Tate, or Tath, or Tagh, varied from 10 to 60 acres."
See Primate Colton's Visitation, p. 130. — J. S.]

191. The O'Reillys were the chiefs of East Breffny, or Co. Cavan. (See a long note in
Q.oxi'DXt^2tXi% Four Masters, p. 76; also p. 159.) — J. S.

192. Took? left.—]. W. H.

[In 1644, Easter Sunday fell on 21st April. Good Friday, therefore, was the i9tb. See
Bond's Handy Book for Verifying Dates, p. 274. — ^J. S.]

193. Ballyveagh, near Tynan.— J. W. H.

194. By the Four Masters (ii. p. 900) Tynan is called Ul11t)nit)A. It is also written
UuijnCAUA.— J. S.

195. St. Matthew's Festival, i.e., 21st September. — J. S.

196. O'Donnell's country, Co. Donegal. — ^J. S.

197. The whole country from the Foyle to the Bann got the name of Patria de (yjCane,
(See Primate Colton's Visitation, p. 28.) — J. S.

198. This extensive territory in Co. Antrim belonged to the M'Quillins (me^ UltriLlTl
Afl Kuta) from the time of the Norman invasion till they were dispossessed by Sorley Boy
MacDonnell, who took forcible possession of the Route about 1554, establishing himself in
M'CJuillin's fortress of Dunluce. The M'Quillins were Welsh adventurers who came over with
the Normans. Their name is believed to be a corruption of Llewellyn. (See Reeves's Ecclesiastical
Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, pp. 326-329.) In 1541 the chief of the M'Quillins
declared that no captain of his race ' ' ever died in his bed sith the first conqueste of their saide
lande." (See The Description of Ireland in IS9S, p. 17.) — J. S.

234 Old Belfast.

his forces retired to Armagh, then eastward to Glenree'^ (gleAnn i^ige),
and over Dromore**® COiauitti muije cobA). Then they separated, re-
tiring into the different garrisons throughout Dalaradia (t)<\l iiajaai je)
and Dalriada, etc.

Monro sent orders to the Mountjoy garrison to burn that town,
and then to march immediately to Carrickfergus. He sent at this
time five or six thousand soldiers over to Scotland against the army
of King Charles. The battle was gained by the King, 7,000 men
were killed, and the Earl of Auchinbreck, with several other leaders,
was beheaded.*®*

All the country across from the Bann-foot (bon bAnn^) to the
gates of Dundalk (f i^a-o bAile), and from the great Cairn of Sliabh
Beagh to Torrey (UojMiij) in the north, presented a wonderfully
deserted appearance. Only eight persons were at Lough [Leary]***
(Loc LA05ii]\e), and eight more at Loughinsholin"* (loc ini]" o tinn).
The Earl, on his leaving the country, had appointed the son of Thomas
Gerald as Governor of Charlemont, and Captain White (Vaoici) from
Limerick, with 150 soldiers, were placed there as a garrison. The
Earl sent five troops of horse to bring the cannons and other baggage
which he had left in Charlemont, over to him in Breffny. One of the
troopers said that he would rather suffer himself to be shot, than come
to Ulster in that convoy.

Towards the end of the autumn, when the corn was all shed, or
burnt, and the houses destroyed, some of the Creaghts ventured to
return to the country; particularly the M^Kennas*®^ (111. cionAic),
namely Niall, of the race of Hugh, came to the Fews (An|:eAt)A), Tur-
logh O'Neill M'Brian to Tureny*®* (uuac cpenA), Patrick Modartha

199. Glenree, the valley of the Newry river. — J. W. H.

[It extended northwards, beyond Scarva. in the parish of Aghaderg, and was the western
limit of Ulidia after 332. when Fergus Fogha, King of Ulster, was slain in battle, and the
Ultonians driven eastwards by the Collas. (See Reeves's Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down,
Connor^ and Dromore, p. 253.) O'Donovan mentions an old map of Ulster, in which the Newry
river is called Owen Glanreejluvius. See the Leabharna g-Ceart, or Book of Rights, p. 37. — J. S.J

200. IHatc: Cot) a was a district in Iveagh, Co. Down. (See the Leabharna g-Ceart, or

Book of Rights, p. 166; Haliday's Irish and English Keating, i. p. 318; Kecyes's EccUsiasticai
Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, p. 112.) — J. S.

201. By the " Elarl of Auchinbreck " is meant Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck. He
was not executed, as apparently implied by O'Mellan, but was slain at the battle of Inverlochy,
2nd February (1644-45). "There Achenbracke was killed, with 16 or 17 of the chief lords of
Campbell ; their other lowland commanders (only two lieutenant-colonels) all cut off." See
Colonel James Macdonnell's Intelligence from His Majesty's Army in Scotland, to be presented to
the most honourable the lord lieutenant of Ireland, in Hill's Macdonnells of Antrim, p. 92.
Auchinbreck fell by the hand of Major-General Alaster MacCoU, "who, by one blow of a two>
handed clavmore, swept off his head and helmet together." See Grant's Memoirs of Montrose,
p. 222. This may be what O'Mellan alludes to when he says Auchinbreck was " beheaded." —
J. S.

202. Lough Leary, in Baron's Court demesne. — J. W. H.

203. Loughinisholin. (Sec Desertmartin in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland^
i. p. 456). — J. W. H.

204. The ctAnn ClonAlC An rpitJCA were settled in the Barony of Trough, Co.
Monaghan. A branch of the family removed to the parish of Maghera, Co. Derry, in the
seventeenth century. (See the Four Masters, iii. p. 533, iv. p. 906.)— J. S.

205. The Barony of Tureny, in the north-west part of the Co. Armagh. — J. W. H.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 235

O'Donnelly, />., the gloomy (moT)A]WA) to Ballydonnelly,'^ and many
others.

The Friars of Armagh came to Brantry. Our Guardian went to
Montiaghs,*^ [Multifarnham ?] (tTloinre |:A]\AnnAn), Father Henry
O'Mellan, Daniel i Sancta Maria Cahill, Bonaventura Quin, Owen
O'Loughran (o LAocq^en), Thomas CaUmti (?), and Edward Dowdall to
different other places. Our President, Patrick O'Cosy (o Coip), and
eleven other friars along with him, and also Teague O'Loughran,
settled at Brantry.

A flying rumour came that the Creaghts had fled from the Counties January, 1645.
of Tyrone, Armagh, and Monaghan westward to .^ The

Friars of Armagh immediately fled to the Fews (a ye^vA) and thence
to Clonkee. A party from Lisnegarvey came to scour the country,
but they found none in the country except the people of the quarter.
They took away from Captain Trevor 140 cows, and it is said that it
was the Captain himself who sold the cows to the English.

Names of chief personages. The Pope is Innocent the Tenth '*^ the
King, Charles ; the Commander in Dublin, the Earl of Ormond ;"'
General of Ulster, Owen O'Neill ; President of the Kilkenny Council,
Lord Butler ;*" General of the South (Leic mox)A), Thomas Preston ;*^*
Primate of All Ireland, Hugh O'Reilly ;"' and the Provincial of the
Order of Saint Francis, Brian M*Giolla Kenna from Connaught
(ConAccAc).

A party from Breffny, from Oriel (GtiAJiAllAib) and from Ferman-
agh (mAncAib) went off to plunder Enniskillen. They remained two
nights on the watch, and seized some booty, but they were forced
to give it up again. There were 220 men of the party killed. Mulmurry
O'Reilly^^* was wounded, and his horse taken. Five of their gentle-
men were made prisoners, and were afterwards ransomed for 600
barrels of meal, 60 barrels of seed oats, and 60 pounds of money.

206. Ballydon nelly, now Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone, about two miles from Dun-
gannon. — J, W. H.

[Pynnar's Survey of Ulster, 1618-19, says : — '* Sir Toby Caufield hath one thousand Acres
csM&dBallidonnell, &c." See Harris's Hibernica, p. 209. — J. S.J

207. The District of the Montiaghs lies beside Lurgan, to the south of LoughNeagh.— J.W.H.
[Montiaghs, 1.^., moinreOkCA, bogs, mosses.— J. S.]

208. Query, Breffny.— J. W. H.

209. Innocent the Tenth (Gian Battista Panfili) succeeded Urban the Eighth (the Pontiff
previously named in this narrative) in 1644. — J. S.

210. Commander in Dublin, i.e.. Lord Lieutenant. Ormonde was sworn in as Lord Lieu-
tenant in Christ Church on 21st January. 1644. (See Curry's Review of the Civil Wars oflreland^
p. 260; also the British Officer's Irish Warr of 1641, p. 35)— J. S.

211. Lord Butler, i.e.. Lord Mountgarret. (See Meehan's Confederation of Kilkenny,

p- 25.)— J. s.

212. Sir Phelim O'Neill's father-in-law. General Preston, received j^6oo per annum for his
services, according to Geoffrey ^atow's Booke of Actomptes, given as an Appendix to Meehan's
Hise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan Monasteries, p. 320. — J. S.

213. Dr. O'Reilly, the Catholic Primate, was translated from Kilmore to Armagh circa 1628.
He died 7th July, 1651. (See Renehan's Collections on Irish Church History, i. pp. 33. 47.) — J. S.

214. Mulmurry O'Reilly, i.e., Myles. — J. O'D.

[A very common name among the ancient O'Reillys of Co. Cavan. It means " the servant (or
tonsured) of Mary." The tribe name of the O'Reillys was 1T1 uincijl TH AoLmo|1t)A.— J. S.]

238 Old Belfast.

the Prelate was Maolshaughlin O'Coyle,'** a Doctor, remarkable for his
learning, his goodness, and the rectitude of his life. They died, but
four Scotchmen fell by their hands in that battle. Many of the Burkes
and of the other Irish were taken prisoners, and the camp was given
up to plunder. The Scotch reinforced the Garrison of Sligo. Burial
of the Archbishop.

General Owen came from Kilkenny, from the Pope's Nuncio, with
3,000 men to Carrickmacross, where he plundered some of the enemy
quartered there. Thence he proceeded to Ballybay, where he re-
mained a while, and then went on to Breffny.

As for Owen O'Neill, he despatched Colonel Rory Maguire, and
Turlogh O'Neill, an old veteran from Spain, of the race of Hugh, along
with 500 men, to Lough Erne. They were joined by their scouts
(a Uicc bjAACA) with two boats, and landed in Illanbabh"" (a
noilen b^b). They burnt and plundered two islands, and carried away
from them upwards of 500 cows, and 140 horses with their accoutre-
ments, and 17 stallions. They brought the plunder to near
Ballynamallaght (bcAl auIi mAllAcc), and, at the rising of the midnight
moon, Rory Maguire's people departed with it. Turlogh M*Brian
McDonnell, son of Felim Roe O'Neill, reconnoitred. " Our enemy is
approaching," said he ; " come to this trench, fire a volley, and let the
pike-men stand here." His orders were obeyed, and eight of the
enemy, with their Lieutenant of the Cavalry, were killed. But our
pike-men gave way, the enemy pressed on us, and we lost Captain
McQuillan and ten men. Captain Eremon M'Swine from Tyrconnell,
and Sergeant- Major Turlogh O'Neill, fell in the slaughter.
1646. The Pope's emissary, Johannes Baptista, Archbishop of Fermo,

arrived in Ireland, bringing with him to Kilkenny sixty thousand
pounds and a great supply of arms.*'''

The General of Ulster waited upon the Nuncio, and engaged to
carry on the operations of the war in that province, if he were furnished
with pay for the soldiers. " You shall receive," was the reply, " pay
for 3,000 men for six months, and add 2,000 more to them yourself at
the expense of the country." The name of the Pope was Innocent the
Tenth. A proclamation was then issued by the Ulster General,

225. He is generally known as Malachy O'Queely, but is sometimes called by historians
Keely or O'Keely. His name in Irish is Ua CaT)!^. The priest was his secretary, Father
Thady O'Connell. There was another priest killed at the same time. (See Meehan's Memoirs
of the Irish Hierarchy in the ijth Century, p. ii8.) " General Taafe sent, on the a7th [Oct. J. a
trumpeter to ask for the body of the Archbishop : but was refused without a ransom of /30.
Bruodin relates that the Scotch army first cut off his right arm and then cruelly mangled the
body, cutting it up into small pieces. Among the important papers said to have been found on
his person was an authentic copy of the famous private treaty between King Charles and the E^l
of Glamorgan." See Renehans Collections on Irish Church History, i. p. 405. Malachy
O'Queely gave a Latin Approbation to the Annals of the Four Masters in 1636. (See it in
O'Donovan's Edition, i. p. Ixx, and in O'Conor's Rerum Hibemicarum Scriptores Veteres, iii.
p. xvi.) — J. S.

226. Boe Island.— J. OD.

[It is called bA"6bA by the Four Masters (iii. p. 648). Those who speak Irish in the district

call it 1 ni ]* b AXJbOkn n or 1 Le<M1 b AXJb An n . It is the largest island in Lough Erne, and
not far from the northern shore. — J. S.]

227. For the date of Rinuccini's arrival see Note 217.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 239

desiring all the horse and foot soldiers in Ulster to meet him, and that
each man should receive three shillings and six pence a-week. They
assembled, accordingly, in Breffny : and seventy horses arrived at the April 24,1646.
Castle of Lough Sheelin,*" bringing from Kilkenny the arms for the
troops. The army continued to collect here until the ist of June.

Seven boats were captured on Lough Neagh by Sir Felim : four- May 8, 1646.
teen men were taken and above twenty killed. The boats were
brought to the mouth of the river of Charlemont (Aca-o An -oa cA]AAt)),
and Sir Felim went to the General's camp. Some of the Scotch May 23, 1646.
forces came to the Blackwater-foot, where they erected two forts on
the banks of the Avonmore, extending chains between them to pre-
vent Sir Felim's people from fishing in the Lough.

The forces of the General and Sir Felim consisted now of above June i, 1646.
5,000 foot and nine troops of horse, commanded by seven officers,
namely, the General, Sir Felim, Colonel M*Neny (ati feA-oA),
Alexander the son of the Earl"' (triAc An iajaIa), Manus O'Donnel son
of Neal Garve (sAjAb), Rory Maguire, and Colonel Farrell. The nine
troops were under the command of the following: — Henry Roe (]\uAt)),
son of the General, Con bACAc (the lame) Brian Roe (jauai)) 0*Neill,***
Brian Roe (]uiAt)) M'Mahon, Philip O'Reilly,^^ Hugh MacMulmurray,
Mulmurray M*Cammon,"' Hugh Maguire, and Colonel Farrell. This
was the assembly of the Ulster forces, the descendants of the great
Owen"' (eojAnAcc IIIai-o), with the General, Owen O'Neil, at their
head.

The report came that Lord Montgomery, with strong forces both
of Scotch and English, was at Glenree"* on the march towards
Munster and Kilkenny, to banish all the insurgents. They pushed
forward, therefore, to Benburb, where they fixed their encampment
and turned the horses to grass. One thousand men and three troops
of cavalry were then appointed to guard the camp, for the enemy
were now near Armagh.

The force under the command of Lord Montgomery, together with June 4, 1646.
Lord Blayney, Lord Hamilton, and Robert Monroe, were joined by
reinforcements from Trian Congail (U]\iAn congAit), and from the
O'Kanes' country near Dungannon, consisting of 80 horseman and 300
foot. Auxiliaries from Tyrconnell also came to Clossagh'^' (ClofAis).

228. On the borders of Counties Cavan, Longford, and Meath.— J. S.

229. Alexander Macdonnell was younger son of the Ekirl of Antrim. — J. W. H.

230. Brian Roe O'Neill was grandson of Sir Cormac MacBaron O'Neill, and on the death
of his elder brother, Hugh Roe, claimed the nominal dignity of Tyrone, which, on his death
without issue, was claimed by Hugh, son of Henry, son of Owen Roe. (Lodge's Irish Peerage^
ist Edition.)— J. W. H.

231. Philip O'Reilly was brother-in-law of Owen Roe. — J. W. H. [He married Rose
O'Neill, Owen Roe's sister. — J. S.]

232. Mulmurry M 'Gammon. In the Cavan Inqn. of loth April, 1629, there is mentioned
Cohonght M'Comcn, a mere Irishman. It is probably MacOwen, one of the O'Reillys. (See p.
57.)-J. W. H.

233. The Eoghanacts of Ulster. — J. W. H.

234. The valley of the Newry river. See Note 199. —J. S.

235. For Clossagh, near Clogher, see Primate Colton's Visitatiomt by Dr. Reeves,
p. 126.— J. W. H.

240 Old Belfast.

Montgomery had now 14 troops of horse and nine regiments. The
heretics proposed immediately to attack Benburb from Armagh.
Monroe was of a different opinion, and recommended that they should
proceed to Tynan, to Athfeada*** (\\rh ]:eA'6-A), Caledon (cionn ai]\t)),
and Knocknacloy*^ (Cnoc An cluice), as the wind and sun would both
be in their favour. This plan was adopted, and they left their waggons
and provisions in Munterbirne*** under the charge of 1,500 soldiers.
There was there six weeks* provision for every man : many a sack of
white canvas,*** quantities of biscuits,plenty of meal, beer, wine, whiskey,
flour, sugar, hens, capons, and a supply of tents. They exhibited
through Munterbirne their great silken banners.

The Irish General sent three troops with Brian O'Neill, son of
Con Roe, to reconnoitre the auxiliaries who had gone to the enemy
from O'Kane's country ; he also despatched 100 men towards the
enemy's army, who took a cry out of them (/.<?., alarmed them), and
then made an honorable retreat back to their own people.

The General, then, in the midst of the forces, thus addressed
them : — " Behold the army of the enemies of God, the enemies of your
souls ! Fight valiantly against them this day : for it is they who have
deprived you of your chiefs, your children, your life, both spiritual and
temporal : who have torn from you your lands, and made you wander-
ing fugitives, &c."

The two armies met at Drumflugh"*' (t)]unm yliuic), and the
heretics, after suffering great loss beside the cannons (for they had
seven field pieces),"^ retreated. The Irish pressed hard on them, and
a general discharge of musketry and cannon took place on both sides.
They then seized their pikes and swords, and a terrible butchery com-
menced. Then arrived in the battle the brave and honorable hero,
the magnanimous and gallant warrior, the protector of the people of
Pope Innocent the Tenth, Owen O'Neill (eoJAii o neiliy

S43

236. Athfcada must be the present Lisnafeedy, in the parish of Eglish, Barony of Tureny,
Co. Armagh.— J. W. H.

237. Knocknacloy was the residence of Miirtagh O'Quin : he, with Tob. Quin, sold Lis-
derry, al. Drum, in the Barony of Dungannon. to Marmaduck Shaw, lo May, 1637, for ;£'i37, who
grranted it to Thos. I..each for j^ioo, 8 Feb., 1656.— J. W. H.

238. The Territory of Muinterbirne, now the name of a Presbyterian congregational district,
includes the present parishes of Aghaloo and Carnteel, on the west side of the Blackwater. having
the Oona river to the north, as also Brantry district.— J. W. H. Now Minterburn. — Kditor

239. Many a sack of white canvas. Perhaps corn. — J. CD.

240. There are three different theories regarding the position of the Benburb battlefield —
(i) That both armies were on the west side of the Oona ; (2) that Monroe on the west side
attacked O'Neill on the east side ; (3) that both armies were on the east side, and that the first
onset took place not more than a mile from Benburb. O'Mellan's statement strongly supports
the last theory, as Drumllugh is hardly a mile from I^nburb Castle ; and the British Officer
places the conflict a mile from IVinburb. This view is also supported by local tradition, by the
fact that the bridge which here spans the river is called the Battle-ford Bridge, and by the
additional testimony that musket balls and human bones have been found just where the Scotch
army was, according to this theory, driven backwards. — Rev. W. T. Latimer, b.a. A full
account of the battle is given in The History of the Irish Presbyterians, by the same author.
Benburb Castle has recently been judiciously repaired by James Bruce, d.l., owner of the estate.
—Editor.

241. Carte {(Ormonde, i. p. 576) says Monroe had four field-pieces. The Nuncio (see
Moore's History of Ireland, iv. p. 289) S2Ly%fii*e — cinque pezti di cannoni da campagna. — J. S.

242. O'Neill exhibited great military skill. He ordered his men not to fire till within pike-
lengths The British Officer gives as one reason for defeat — " The soldiers. I mean some that
were not strong (enough) in the British Army for his IMke in a windy day, would cut off a foot,
and some two, of their Pikes,— which is a damned thing to be sufifered." — The Warr of Ireland,
p. 49. — Editor.

Narrative of the Wars of 164 i. 241

About this time also arrived the three troops which had been sent
to Dungannon in the beginning of the day, and the Scotch imagined
these to be some of their own people. Moreover, Sir Felim now joined
the conflict with ten companies of soldiers, and greatly contributed to
confuse the enemy. Lord Blayney was killed, and Lord Montgomery
taken.'** He was deprived of his horse and arms and put into confine-
ment. The heretics now gave way, completely routed. Then did the
Irish raise the battle-cry. The General might be seen urging forward
his gallant army in the pursuit, sometimes in front, sometimes riding
in the midst of them, until they were stopped by the dusk of the
evening. Numbers were killed, and a part of the fugitives were
drowned in the Avonmore and in the lough of Knocknacloy (Cnoc
An cluice). The General and the troops returned that night to their
encampment, highly elated after their victory. Even those of the
enemy who were only wounded did not escape ; scarcely any of them
reached their homes, but perished in the wilds. Thirteen horsemen were
killed in [Betagh country] (a ttoucaij biAUAc).*** A Company of the
General's, who were coming from Lough Sheelin after the army, killed
five and twenty of them. Thomas Sandford, a Lieutenant-Colonel of Sir
Felim's, killed twenty-four of them above Armagh. Fifty-seven more
were destroyed by Henry O'Neill at the foot of a glen. Many others were
found lying dead, without having received any wounds. The Puritans
of Tyrconnell sent a message to the General offering battle. He sent
the vanguard of the army westwards to Clossagh (Clof A15) to meet
the enemy ; he remained himself with the main body, and Sir Felim
brought up the rear. The enemy fled to Enniskillen and to Tyrconnell.
The General then returned with the forces to Charlemont, Loughgall,
and Tamnamore (U<\tTinAC mop). There were killed Magnus O'Don-
nell,**' son of Neil Garve (5^]^b), and Cu Uladh (ciuilAt)) O'Neill, the son
of Ferdoragh M*Brian the scabbed (ca|a]aac). Above 300 more were
either killed or wounded.*** Sir Felim procured surgical aid at
Charlemont for all the wounded men.- By the late victory they were
now in possession of more than 1,000 muskets, a large quantity of

243. Lord Blaney's body was honourably interred in Benburb Church by Owen Roe, but
was afterwards exhumed and taken to Castleblayney. Lord Montgomery was imprisoned in
*' Clogtiwooter." He was released after " about two years." He attended a Council at Lisbum,
I4th-i5th March, 1647-8. (See the Montgomery MSS., pp. 165, 169.)— J. S.

244. [ ] Betagh Country. — J. O'D.

'OuC<M"6, a land, a country ; OeiC, a birch tree, i.c^ the birch country. Of the lands in

the territory or precinct of Tynan, in the Barony of Tureny, the property of the Primate, were,
inUr alia, Bally-veagh and Gortmorlagh. now Gortmalegg, in the Parish of Tynan. Bally-veagh
is now absorbed in some other townland. but it probably was the Duthaidh-beith of the text. —
J. W. H.

245. Colonel Manus O'Donnell had been married to Susanna, daughter of Hugh Magennis,
Visct. Iveagh, by whom he had a son, Rory, of Lifford. — ^J. W. H.

246. The Nuncio states that the Irish lost only 70 men. and 100 wounded : — Dei nosttH son
morti solamente sctianta. . . . Cento soli feriti. {See Moore's //istory 0/ /relami, iv, p. 2go.)
Carte (Ormonde, i. p. 576) gives the Irish loss as 70 men, and 200 woimded. — J. S.

A list is given at p. 66 of the additional arms to be distributed among " the 4 regiments of
foot that were at Benburb." showing clearly the great loss that had taken place in them.
Pinkerton mentions that new entrenching tools had also to be procured, as so many were lost at
Benburb. —Editor.

242 Old Belfast.

pikes and pike-axes : also drums, seven field-pieces, and 36 standards.
These flags were transmitted by the General to the Nuncio and Council
of Kilkenny, as a token of his victory, under charge of the Diffinitor
of the Order of Saint Francis, Bartholomew M*Egan,**' and his servant,
Hugh Boy (bui-oe) M*Manus. He also sent some extraordinary
letters found with the heretics. They had come to the determination
on that day not to give quarter to a single man except the General
himself. Shane O'Kane and Richard 0*Kane, Donald Magenis, son
of the Earl of Iveagh,*** and Rory Maguire, were sent off with 1,500
soldiers to plunder Trian Congail (U]uAn congAil). They sacked and
burnt Downpatrick, Saul (j^AbAll), the Bishop's Court, Ballybot^
(bAile riA po]\z muillionn), and Killeagh^" (CiHoIaoc), and brought
away 500 cows to Tamnamore (UAiiinAc mojA), not to mention other
plunder. Thomas Sandford, a Lieutenant-Colonel of Sir Felim's, was
sent, along with 600 men, to Portadown and Clare*** (CLa]\), both
which places they burnt.

The number of the slain between Drumflugh COiAuim plnnc) and
Lisnafeedy^* (Ach ^reA-oA) [thanks be to God, for it was He alone that
performed the achievement!] was 3,548,and this in a space of three hours,
exclusive of those killed in the wilds, such as at Toaghy (cuac ACAi-6),and
in the wood east of Anabeatagh (<\ nib ecAc).**' Numbers were found
dead without a trace of blood on them. The General left Tamnamore
(UAtTiriAc m6]\) and proceeded with the army to Breffny. The
Deacon*** of the Apostolic Nuncio, and the Diffinitor of the Order of
Saint Francis,''" came from Limerick to meet the General of Ulster.
The Deacon gave three Rials (one shilling and sixpence) to every
single soldier, and more to the officers ; and they were placed to

247. A Diffinitor regulated the affairs of Chapters. (See Fosbroke's British Monachisnt,
p. 146.) Bartholomew M'Egan, or Boetius Egan. as he is more generally called, became Bishop
of Ross in 1648, and was hanged by Lord Broghill in 1650. (See Meehan's Memoirs 0/ the Irish
Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 237-38. ) — ^J. S.

248. Earl of Iveagh. Correctly, Viscount.

Shane and Richard O'Kane were probably related to Lieutenant-Gcneral Donnel O'Kane,
slain near Clones.

Daniel and Roger Magennis were the two younger brothers of Sir Con Magenis, and sons of
Art Roe, created Viscount Magenis of Iveagh, 18 July, 1623. — J. W. H. The Editor has a lease
with the latter s signature.

249. Ballybot. ? Ballynewport, adjoining Rathmultan.— J. W. H.

250. Killeagh. ? Killough.— J. W. H.

251. Clare, in P. of Bally more. — J. W. H.

252. By BXilng. ofthe Primate's property of Clanaule, taken at Armagh, 12 August, 1609, we
find Lisny ferric.— J. W. H.

253. Ana-beatagh. Qu. Anaghneveah, now Annagh, p. of Tynan, Barony of Tureny

J. W. H.

254. This was Massari, dean of Fermo, Rinuccini's secretary. Massari compiled the
history of the A^«««7<2/«ra, assisted by Father Richard O'Farrell, probably an Irish Franciscan
and another priest whose name does not appear. The title ofthe work is De Hceresis Angli^aM
Intrusione et Progressu et de Bello Catholico Ad. an. 1641, incepto exindeque per aliquot annos
gesto, Commentarius. (See Meehan's Memoirs of the Irish Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century
Appendix N, p. 369.) — J. S.

255. The Diffinitor was Boetius Egan, by whom Owen Roe had sent to the Nuncio,
Rinuccini, an account of the battle in a Latin letter dated 9th June. 1646, which is given as an
Appendix to Meehan's A/«m<^W ofthe Irish Hierarchy in the Seventeenth Century, p. 434. — J. s.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 243

guard five counties, namely, the Counties of Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim,
Longford, and MulHngar, until the crops should be ripe. Sir Felim
stayed at Charlemont attending to the wounded. He sent six boats to
Bunavally (bun An beAl^ij) ; the boats were drawn ashore, and soldiers
placed between that and the garrison. The boats were then brought
to Trowagh Bay (T^)\ai5 -oubAc), a fort was raised there and soldiers
stationed in it, with some fishermen who caught plenty of fish ; the
Scotch were thus prevented from leaving Bunavally (bun An beAlAij),
and they were in great want of provisions.

In Breffny, at Ballyheelin (bel AcliAliAn), Brian Roe O'Neill killed June 29, 1646.
Hugh M*Art Og MTurley O'Neill. He shot him with a pistol.

The troops of the enemy came to Munter Birn. They seized Hugh
O'Neill, M*Brian M*Henry Og, and carried off four horses and forty
cows.

The Council of Kilkenny was now negotiating a peace with the
Earl of Ormond, without the permission of the old Irish Chiefs. He
was invited to meet them there, which he agreed to do. The Court
and Castle were newly decorated for his reception. New gates were
erected, splendidly gilt. The Earl arrived with 1 5 troops of horse and
2,000 foot. The Council of Kilkenny, Lord Mountgarret (THoca
goiiAeA-o), Donchadh M'Carty, and all the country submitted to him ;
and, matters being arranged there, he proceeded to Cashel of Munster,
where the people of Munster received him joyfully.

About this time a Chapter was held by the Nuncio at Waterford,
where the news reached him that the Earl was in the Country. He
immediately dispatched 500 soldiers and letters to the General of
Ulster, directing him to leave Breffny with the army.

These letters having reached the General, he sent orders to the Aug. 28, 1646.
Captains with their soldiers, and to the cavalry, to meet him this day
on Bruise Mountain (j^liAb b]un]'). They accordingly arrived, ac-
companied by Sir Felim, Colonel of the horse. That night they were
in the County Longford, and they made no halt till they were at
Ballyskeagh (bAile j^geACAc). Here 40 horses from Kilkenny met
them, loaded with bread, beer, &c.

As for the Earl of Ormond ; hearing, while at Cashel, of the arrival
of the Ulster General, he forthwith made his escape with 1 5 troops and
2,000 foot-soldiers, not to his own place, Kilkenny, but to Gowran
(5Ab]AAn). On being informed that the General's cavalry was in the
neighbourhood, they fled to Leighlin (lelmn).^ In the town they
fired a volley of musketry and then all separated, so that upon the
Earl's arrival in Carlow he had only with him 12 horsemen. There
he alighted and took some bread and wine : the horsemen did not
dismount They then proceeded to Dublin.

The General of Ulster was now at Ballynaskeagh (b. nA j^geiceA-o),
and pitched his tents and booths beside the Deer-park. Intelligence
of this was conveyed to the two Nuncios, one of whom, in the begin-
ning of the war, had come from Pope Urban the Eighth, the other

256. Written LeiC jLlonn by better authorities.— J. &

244 Old Belfast.

from Pope Innocent the Tenth. They both came from Kilkenny to
meet the General.*''^ He, with Sir Felim and the other chiefs, came
into the presence of these holy men and received their benediction.

The General required that the Castle and fortifications of the city
should be delivered up to him, and the following hostages from the
country and the city, viz., Donchadh M*Carty, Lord of Muskerry
(TTlurgpAije), Edmund Butler,son of Lord Mountgarret (tTlocAjAiiteAT)),
also beling (belnn), the Secretary of the Council, Sir John Begneir,
and four others of the principal Gentlemen of the country. These
matters were arranged forthwith, and the town and the hostages were
taken in charge.
1646. The General held a review of all his Infantry, who amounted

to 14,000 men. Sir Felim, the Colonel of the horse, also mustered the
cavalry, consisting of 22 troops. On this occasion all the principwd
Irish chiefs were present, together with the two Nuncios and the
Ambassadors of Spain and France.

The Archbishop of Fermo, one of the Nuncios, passed through the
forces, from the west side to the east, giving them his benediction.
The soldiers then fired a volley of musketry with one consent, accom-
panied by a discharge from all the cannons : and on the passing of
the Nuncio again from the east side to the west there was a similar
universal discharge, in token of honor and glory to God, the Pope and
the Nuncio.

The Nuncio then came to where Sir Felim was with the cavalry
and blessed them, when they, in like manner, fired a volley from their
carbines and pistols. The Review occupied two days. The General
accompanied the Nuncios and Ambassadors to the city-gate, taking
leave of them, and then returned himself to the camp. The sumptuous
feasts which had been prepared in honor of the Earl of Ormond were
now distributed among the youths of Ulster, and the whole forces
remained encamped at Kilkenny for 10 days without any scarcity of
provisions. The golden gate which had been erected for the same
occasion was taken down and concealed from the Ulster people. The
General gave up the Castle, the town, and the hostages into the hands
Sept. 28,1646. of the Nuncio. Everything being arranged, they received his blessing,
and all the troops marched on Monday to Castlecomer ('opoijeA-o a
•oeijnei) and to (50 bdite ye^yn Tnic lAoipj), where they staid

four nights. From thence they proceeded to the Hill of Lease

257. Both Nuncios, i.e., Scarampo and Rinuccini. It is stated by Dr. (now Cardinal)
Moran, in his Memoir of Oliver Plunket, p. 4, that Scarampo, Urban the Eighth's envoy, did not,
as is commonly represented, remain in Ireland till 1647, but that he returned to Rome in 1645]
having received permission to do so by a Brief dated 4th May in that year. O'Mellan, in this

{)aragraph and the next but one, is against the statement of his Eminence. In Rinuccini's
etters to Cardinal Pamphili there is evidence that Scarampo was in Ireland as late as February,
1647. A letter dated 21st May, 1646, incidentally mentions that Scarampo [Scarampi] constantly
resided in Waterford ; another, 24th May, 1646, notices that he has often written for leave to de-
part ; another, 24th December, 1646, that he has received permission to do so : in another, 30th
December, 1646. Rinuccini writes that he is expecting Scarampo to pay him a farewell visit : in
another, ist February, 1647, he states that Scarampo was in Kilkenny till that day, stress of
weather having made him return some little time before : in another, 6th February, 1647,
Rinuccini writes that he sends the Cardinal three reports by Scarampo, and one in cipher. (See
The Embassy in Ireland of Monsignor G, B, Rinuccini, pp. 165, 167, 224, 234, 239, 249.) — J. s.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641. 245

(boili TiA coiltit) A tAoitij^) and Cullentra Castle (CAifteAii riA Sept., 1646.

cuilencjioi). The General treated the Captain of the place very

leniently, and placed a garrison of his own there. From this

they went to Maryboro* (poj^c Laoi^).*" Before surrounding the

town, Sir Felim, the Colonel of the horse, called on the garrison to

surrender. They replied that they would not, until they saw the

General and the cannon. The troops now arriving, a drummer was

despatched to demand formally the surrender of the place. The

Governor demanded hostages from the General, and, accordingly,

Brian O'Neill M*Quin Roc and Shane O'Neill M^Henry MTurley, from Oct 6, 1646.

the wood, were sent. Sir William Gilbert then came to the army, and

on seeing the force and the cannon he agreed to capitulate, receiving

permission for the garrison to carry away all their movables. Port

Lease*** was given in charge to Felim O'Neill McDonnell M*Henry.

The army went from thence to Dysart-Enos ('oipo)Ar). Here Pigot

(An bpiceA-oAc) was ordered through a drummer to surrender the

castle ; but he replied that he would not stir a foot. The General

then commanded Colonel Farrel and Colonel Rory to begin the attack.

The outworks outside the gate were first burnt They then scaled

the ramparts and made their way into the area, where they burnt the

great hall, the stables, and the great haggart. Upwards of eighty

were killed, along with the Captain and Pigot himself. Colonel Rory

had one Captain killed, namely, Dugald M'Quillan, and five soldiers.

From this place they proceeded to the County Kildare, to Castle

Rheban^ (C^iflen <\n i^ebAin), which they took ; from that to Athy

(b^ile AdiA hi), which they also took. They then took from the

enemy the Grange of Nurney^* (5]^<Mnfe<\c An iubAi]A), J iggenstown** October, 1646.

(boile uigin), Lyons^ (boile bnAin), Castle Martin**^ (cAi]'ten mAjicin),

Clane (CLAonA), the town of Sir John Hay*" (boite po\\ feon h^n),

Ballymore Eustace (boile nA nu^rAfAc), Ballyhenry (boile henjM),

and a number of other towns taken from the enemy not mentioned

here. They approached within 12 miles of Dublin, and to the

bridge of Kilcullen (cill cmlinn). General Thomas Preston and his

army here joined Owen O'Neill, and they remained thus for a

considerable time.

Let some mention be now made of the people of Lisnegarvey,
Killyleagh, Newry, Rosstrevor (c.r)\eve]A), of Carlingford, of Dundalk
(f]AAc bAib), of Drogheda, and of Slane (o boich flAine). They all
assembled and fell on the people of Oriel, who fled to the woods of

258. Written po]1C LaoiJI]"! by the Four Masters (v. p. 1750).— J. S.

259. Port Lease, i.e.. Port Leix. i.e., Maryborough. — J. S.

260. See Anthologia Hibernica, ii. 161. — J. W. H.

261. On Petty 's Map of Kildare, Nurney Castle is marked on the S. of the Barony of
Ophaley.-J.W. H.

262. Jiggenstown, a mile to the west of Naas. — J. W. H.

263. Castle Martin, to the west of Kilcullen bridge, on old map of Kildare. In Petty's Map
of Kildare, Castlemartin is marked near the junction of three baronies, Connell, N.W., Naas,
N.E., and Kilcullen, S.— J. W. H,

264. Lyons, Co. Kildare. spelled on Petty's Map "Castle lions."— J. W. H.

265. ?Ballyhayes.— J. CD. ? Ballysonan.— J. W. H.

246 Old Belfast.

(t)]Auim •ouin). They then plundered and burnt their houses and
haggarts (a5A]\c) as far as the woods of Killaney (ciLt Ann a).
They burnt Moybolgue (c.muige botg), and destroyed hundreds of
pounds* worth of produce. They returned, bringing with them a great
amount of spoil. They brought with them the soldiers who were
stationed at Carrickmacross, and then burnt the place itself. Sad
and sorrowful were the women and the men of Breffny after their
departure.

Dec., 1646. The General was still near Dublin with his forces, but permission

did not arrive from the Council of Kilkenny for him to proceed until
the month of December came with long and violent rains, and he was
then directed to disband the troops for the space of three months.
The General accordingly issued orders to the forces to go into
quarters, which they did in Munster and Leinster.

The Earl of Ormond, with a strong force, arrived at Trim. Here
he was joined by the Earl of Kildare, the Earl of Westmeath, that is,
Richard Nugent (numnpon), Earl Burke, the Earl of Roscommon,
Earl Castlehavcn, who had left Kilkenny with the Earl of Ormond, and
Sir James Dillon, a Colonel of the Catholics. He is along with these
persons this day, namely, St. Thomas's Day,^ in the house of Edward
Boy (bui-oe) Dewitt. They raised a contribution of two pounds off
every gniotii (/>., the 12th of a ploughland) in the County of Mullingar,
and quarter for the troops and soldiers.

Jan. 15, 1647. The Earl of Ormond proceeded to Breffny, crossing the country,
and collecting the cows, forage, and other property of the people.
This was done eight days. They gathered and tied up everything,
killed 38 persons, and carried off from Breffny and Oriel 4,000 cows.

Jan. 18, 1647. Captain Philip Roe O'Reilly obtained permission from his Colonel,
Philip M*Kee, to go with 300 soldiers in pursuit of the enemy. They
came behind a town in which were two troops of them, and towards
the end of the night they surrounded the place. They beat their
drums, fired off their muskets, and burnt the houses over the enemy's
horses and themselves, killing a number of them. They had with
them 90 horses, which, together with the arms of the cavalr>'', were
brought by the Captain to Ballynacargy (bel Ac[nA]c<\|^|^5e).

Jan. 21, 1647. Sir Felim sent out seven boats and a bark, in which were two
field-pieces and a strong crew, upon Lough Neagh (e<\rAc). They
burnt two of the enemy's forts in Claneboy and a great haggart
belonging to Major Connolly, the person who informed against Conor
Maguire, Lord Enniskillen, who was put to death in 1644.^^ They
killed both men and cattle, and brought away with them whatever they
pleased in the boats. They were pursued both by land and water.
Sir Felim's people were raising a fort on Trowa^^h (rjA^ij -oiib-Ac) in
Clan-Bresail, when the enemy surprised them, and killed a number of
them, among the rest, Robert Atkinson, a Lieutenant. Upwards of
20 were taken and some drowned. Two boats escaped, but the bark
and five boats were taken.

266. St. Thomas's Day, i.e., 21st December. — J. S.

267. ao February, 1644-45.— J. S.

Narrative of the Wars of 1641.

247

Shane O'Kane, the Sergeant-Major-General, and Lieutenant- J""- "5, 1647,
Colonel Felim M'Tuath M'Toole, came to the County of Mullmgar,
along with 3,000 foot and a number of horse. They arrived at
Loughcrew (b. Loc& cjiAoibe), and next day had a rendezvous. They
resolved to attack the garrison of Kells (ceAnAnncuj-), where Colonel
Theophilus Jones was stationed with 300 men. They travelled night
and day till they reached Kells. The foot soldiers scaled the walls,
while the cavalry remained outside. Those of Colonel Jones's soldiers
(about 1 30) who asked quarter were spared ; upwards of 200 were
killed. The people of the town itself were spared. The prisoners
were taken to Finae (V'O'O a" aca), and Theophilus to the Castle of
Lough Sheelin, General Monk, with 3,000 of the Parliamentary
forces and 120 horses, together with their cavalry accoutrements,
arrived in Trian Congail (cpiin congiV)!-) gainst the Province of
Ulster.

Three thousand soldiers from Parliament arrived in Dublin against Feb., 1647.
Leinster and horses (cetera desunt).

Note. — Dr. John M'Donrell. Dublin, lefl some antiquarian notes, now in the Editor's posses-
sion. He transcribed the brief notices of LougbinshoUn Island in O Mellan's Narralive, translated
bv Ibe Rev. Dr. Reeves in bis Sufflmtntaiy Obiervatians la Mr. Wildts Paftr on itrtain
Crannogti in UliUr, tead nth April, 1859 Uee Procadings R.I.A.. vol. vii. p. \p\ He bas
added [he following notice of O'MelUn's MS. without stating bis authority : — " Fnjr O'Metlnn
wrote a journal including a period cilending from 1641 to 1647. He was of the Franciscan
Order, wlio hnd a monastic home in the Co. of Tyrone. Parish of Aghantoo. He is believed to
have been Chaplain 10 Sir Pbelim O'Neill. This journal contains on account of the general
history of the Roman Catholics during Ibe above period. The MS. was sent to Ibe late Earl
O'Neill by the possessor about len yenrs ago, who presented it to bim as descendant (which he
was not) and representative of Owen Roe. It was copied by Eugene O'Curry. and carefully
collated by John O'Donovan, lud., by ibe desire of the Rev. James Henihom Todd, S.f.T.CD..
for Ibe Royal Irish Academy. It was translated by Robert Macadam, of Belfast, for Lord
O'Neill, 'This translation was sent up to Dublin to Geo. Pelrie, who made no use of ii, Bui
the original, borrowed from the possessor. Lord O'Neill, for the R.I. A., was tmnscribed by K.
O Curry, and for some time exhibited as a specimen of his caligraphy in a glass case, but of late
years it has been removed. Rev. W. Reeves, Sec. to Ihe Academy, published in the Prtxetdin/f]
the following important extracts." (They are contained in 30 lines of Ihe original.) Ii may be
added, thai m addition to the copy in the Grainger Collection. Belfast Free Library, anoiher copy,
made by the late J. W. Hanna, is in the possession of Ihe Rev. J. O'Laverty, p.p., h.r.i.a.,
who kindly lent it to tbc Editor.

FIMIS.

HppenMy*

Inventory of the Pinkerton MSS. sent by George Benn with a

LETTER TO ROBERT S. MaCADAM, I872.

(AfttcA condeiued here.)

Bundle marked No. i.

I. Short and very good account of the introduction of Printing into Belfast, with list of
all the early printers' names. 2. List of Belfast -printed books to the publication of Belfast
Magazine^ 1808. 3. Small MS., with extracts from Hardv, Twiss, and others about Belfast-
printed books. 4. Another MS., with an immense list 01 Belfast books, chiefly reprints by
Magee and the Joys. Miscellaneous papers.

2ND Parcel, marked on back, **Old Belfast Papers, Leases, Acts of Parlia-
ment, Wills, &C.. OF THE DONEGALL FAMILY."
This mainly consists of a large mass of Law papers ; offers from tenants for new leases ;
an Act of Parliament obtained in 1751 to give an enabling power to E^rl Donegal 1 and his
trustees to grant leases for long terms, as the expression is, to rebuild Belfast^ then stated to
be old and ruinous, some of the inhabitants, it is declared in one of the MSS., being deter-
mined to leave the town and settle in Newry or Lisbum if not favoured with such leases ;
letter of Lord Massareene relative to a Macartney ; many documents relating to country
parts of the estate — Donegal, Carrickfergus, Antrim, &c.

No. 3. Marked "Miscellaneous Notes about Belfast."

This parcel contains numerous notes and memoranda referring to documents elsewhere ;
thus — " Essex's camp ; notice about Belfast ; important." Amongst more modern papers is
a very good account of the origin and history of the Belfast Charitable Society, by the late
Mr. Bruce ; a good deal about the fords in connection with the Donegall and Templemore
lawsuit ; and many documents about Turlogh Lynnagh O'Neill and his contemporaries.
There are also some printed ballads, and notices of general rather than local interest.

No. 4. Report of the Municipal Commissioners, 1833-34, on the Borough of
Belfast.

No. 5. Miscellaneous. Belfast.

Several MSS. feistened together, containing about 100 pp. , copied from some public
depository, but no account of where or what ; the dates not clearly referred to, but 1642-
1643, and at the end 1647, occur. The papers are taken up with accounts of the wars in
Ulster; disputes about corn consequent on the "cessation." A paper in Mr. Pinkerton's
handwriting describing the ** Old Town Book of Belfast," and which he considers " the most
curious and important collection of documents of its kind in Ireland ;" followed by a list of
early sovereigns and burgesses, oaths of ofHce, fines for non-attendance at church, &c. A
bundle of 20 little books containing Mr. Pinkerton's copious extracts from the Record Book
of the old Corporation ; some already printed, but the greater part, of course, nowhere but
in that old Book. Next are four MS. books containing much about the Smiths' attempt to
get the Ards in Elizabeth's time. Dealings and letters between the several parties interested,
both English and Irish. Also much Scotch seventeenth century history — political and
theological. Many documents leading to law or arbitration, connected with settlements, &c.,
on members of the Donegall family. Many papers and extracts referring to the history of
Presbyterianism after the Restoration. Ten little sewed books containing copies of two
wills of the Earls of Donegall, notices of the ** Key," apparent difficulties between the Cor-
poration and the Donegall family. A satirical poem of 177 1, with allusions to the Hearts of
Steel. A book with notices of the general wars in Ulster, and at end genealogies of the
Joy and Grierson families. Many miscellaneous scraps and loose leaves.

No. 6. Bundle endorsed ** 7 Bound MS. Volumes."

No. I. Extracts from the old Corporation Records. No. 2. Literary quotations about
general subjects. No. 3. Marked *' Clarke's Correspondence." Much here about King
William's proceedings. Belfast introduced, but not prominently. Phillips' account of
Carrickfergus, Belfast, Derry. &c. Extracts and Notes on Richard Dobbs' MS. account of
Co. Antrim, already known to Rev. George Hill and others. A book containing extracts
from News- Letter. Notices of books printed in Belfast of the famous schoolmaster, David
Manson ; notices of maps ; calendar of papers referring to Belfast, Antrim, the McDonnells,
&c., some scored across, as if Mr. Pinkerton had already given them away or used them else-
where. A general memorandum book about the Dublin Society, Fishing, Freemasonry, &c.
A small book filled with references about the News- Letter and Belfast -prmted books.

No. 7-

Two bundles tied together. One is labelled, "Port of Belfast," and contains some
papers referring to it. The other is marked on back, '* Grants, Leases, &c., of the Donegall

2 so

Old Belfast.

Family." It contains copy of original grant of all the estates in Antrim, CarrickfergnSy
Down, Donegal, Tyrone, and copies of subsequent confirmations, &c., and family settlements
of a lengthy nature. Account of the funeral of Sir Arthur Chichester. Notes of interments
of other members of the family. Document in large sheets, apparently a confirmatory grant
to remedy defective titles from Charles I. to Chichester, with every townland named. These
three large books are all in Mr. Pinkerton's handwriting. Very long copy of a deed* dated
1692, between relatives of the Donegalls. A number of loose papers, applications for leases,
with small sketch maps. Two books filled with extracts from documents of the Ulster
Plantation in Lambeth Palace, beginning with the work done at Dromore, passing to
Carrickfereus (building of Joymount there), Derry, Armagh, Monaghan, &c. Tne notices
about Belfast are very interesting. A long document giving a biography of Samuel
McSkimin, Crofton Croker, &c. ; the genealogy and burials of the O'Neills ; the trials,
&c, of certain Presbyterian ministers of 1798. A book in Mr. Pinkerton's handwriting con-
taining the proposed transplanting of the Ulster Scots in 1653. Another book filled with
proceedings of Convocation in 1729. An Inquisition at Ardquin, Co. Down. Small MS.
book of Sfa/e Paper extracts relative to Spanish assistance to Munster Irish, and the
O'Neills of the period. A little book labelled **Forde," containing account of King
William's entry into Belfast, Schonberg's proceedings, and the state of the town then. A
book containing Smith's Charter in Latin. A book in Mr. Pinkerton's handwriting of miscel-
laneous gatherings of Chichesters, McDonnells, O'Neills, &c. Allowances to the forces,
pedigrees, coats of arms, &c. A large amount of loose leaves and cuttings.

No. 8. Marked on back, "Bermingham Tower and Presbyterians."

Contains nine small books and a number of loose leaves and scraps. They contain
orders of Council, showing the dealings of the Parliament and Cromwell with the Presby-
terians ; fragments of Scotch history ; mentions of the McDonnells and the O'Neills ; the
petition of Edmund Spenser's grandson to Cromwell, besides many local references.

No. 9. ■

A book containing an account of the mutiny at Carrickfergus in 1666. A little book
about the Customs, Excise, &c., in 1637. A number of references to playing-cards,
fishing, &c.

No. 10

Is a very large collection. It contains the full description of Co. Antrim in 1683, by
Richard Dobbs, which Mr. Pinkerton intended to publish for private circulation. Several
other contemporary descriptions of other counties are in this parcel. Miscellaneous papers.

No. II. Marked "Miscellaneous."

A book containing a good many orders, resolutions, letters, &c., relative to the wars of
the seventeenth century, with complaints and expostulations from several quarters consequent
on Monroe's surprisal of Belfast. Many literary papers of all kinds, on Valentine Great-
rakes, the Irish Harp, claims to early civilisation, &c.

No. 12.

This parcel contains eight little books, consisting entirely of extracts from Belfast News-
Letter ^ in Mr. Pinkerton's handwriting, down to 1782.

Books relating to Ireland collected by William Pinkerton, f.s.a., f.a.s.l., to
aid him in writing a History of the Town of Belfast : —

Antmologia Hibrrnica, 1793-4.

BoRLASB, Reduction 0/ 1 re land ^ 1675.

Carte, Life of Ormonde ^ 1736.

Carbw. Reprint, 1810.

DuBOURDiEU, Sur7>ey, Co. Antrim^ 1812.

Boats, Natural History of Ireland^ 1755.

Bbnn, History 0/ Belfast^ 1823.

Bbrwick, HistoriciU Collections^ 1817.

Castlbhaven's Memoirs^ 1753.

Ahiman Rezon ^Masonic, 1783), 1795.

Chambers's Domestic Annals 0/ Scot land ^ 1859.

Brads haw's Belfast Directory^ 18 19.

Duffy's Irish Library, comprising —

Mitchel's Aodh C7Neill, 1862'.

Mbbhan's Gernldines, 1847.

Mbehan's Confederation 0/ Kilkenny^ 1862.

Mrbhan's Life of Kimvan^ 1848.

NrGsE's Itish Writers, 1857.

MacNevin's Volunteers, 1853.

MacNevin's Confiscation of Ulster, i860.

French's Historical Works, 1846.

M'Gbe's Art MacMurrou^h, 1847.

Hay's InsurrectioH, 1863.

Hardy's Li/e of CharUtnont, 1810.

Hempton's History 0/ Londonderry, i86x.

Bel/ait Politics, 1794.

Letters between Henry and Frances iGriffi.tks), 1770.

Harris's County 0/ Down. 1744.

Gregory's Highlands and Islands, 1836.

Historical Account 0/ Election for Co. Denvn^ «784.

Petty, Political Anatomy, 1691.

PiLSON, History 0/ Rise and Progress of Beljeut^ 1846.

M'Skimin, History of Carrickfergus, 1833.

Calendar State Papers, Ireland, 1509-73.

Rutty, History of Quakers in Ireland^ 17S1.

Taylor and Skinner's Maps of Roads, /rrla.nd^ >778.

Historical View of Irish Society's Plantation

IN Ulster, 1822.
Story's Wars in Ireland, 1693.
Oldmixon's Memoirs of Ireland^ 1716.
Stuart's History of Armtsgh, 1819.
Kelly's Cambrensis Eversus of Lynch^ 1848.
O'Donovan's Book of Rights, 1847.
O'DoNo van's Four Masters, 1856.
O'Connor, History of Ireland, 1766.
Milner, Catholic Inhabitants and Antiquitiet^ x8o8.

KiaiirATiiicK's FmfyttrimH l.nii//j; 171}.
Rbid, Pmirliriaa Ckunk in Irtlmnd, .B53.
DrraiEUv, Zrcvi 0/ Enrit t/Eiujc.tiu.
Maddsn UnIM IrUhmin (Fiw Sena), 184..

" V, Ordiuutct Survty, Ca Londemarrry^ 1837.

Pamphlet!

, iSn-

Tour thiouch Iiilahd (LwdamhU, i7&>-
WmcHT's Giraldnt Cmmbnntit (Bi»n). iM}.
LitUr/nrm AiraJuim Praltll maiir, JtiMiur

O'COHNOB, Ofyfia VimlicaUt, 177;,

CoLLKCTAKIA DE RiBUB HiBBRHICIS, I77t.

IS and liacts selecled from a lo^e numbei as those most likely to be useful : —
In Vol. I.
Oiigin of Iiish Yeomanry, 1801.
Lorf Taafe, Affairs in Irdaod from 1691, 1766.
Jelib on a National Qiculalion Bank, 1780.

IN Vol. V.
Application of Bamel's Memoirs of JacattHism to Ihe Secret Societies of Ireland, 1798.
Report of Committee of Secrecy, 1799.

In Vol. VII.

Case of W. T. Jones in Jail of Cork on charge of High Treason, 1803.

Detail of Affair of Honour between W. T. Jones and Sir R. Muigiave, lSo>.

Letter to the Societies of United Irishmen of Town of Belfast by W. T. Jone«, 179a.

To the Magistrates, Military, and Yeomanry of Ireland, 1798.

Letter of Lord De Clifford to Electors of Downpatrick, ii.d.

Question relative to Petitions from Dublin, Cork, and Belfast for a new regulation of
the Portugal Gold Coin, 1760.

Observation on case of Pnest O'Neill, 1304.

Meeting of Trustees of Linen and Hemp Manufacture in Ireland, printed by Lioen
Board about 1S03 (curious, useful, and suggestive reqwding Linen manufacture).

iV_Cvvy

motes.

Page I. Report bv Robert Cowlsv

This eilcact from the Irish Slate Papers, of which a frMt appears in Hamilton's Iritk
Caletidar vj atale Papers, 1509-7J. is piinled as an example of Ihe material available for the
earlier annals of Belfast and its vicinity. When W. Pinkeilon began to colltct notices of our
local history, of which examples ate given at p. 2. the Ireasutes contained in the State Paper
Offices were not so easily acceiisible as since the publication of the numerous calendars now
in all lai^ libraries. He gives as the tirst mention of Belfast, 1551 — " Bagenal intends
to retain to Belfast." In a letter of his addiessed to Robert S. Macadam, lefening to
the death of Edmund Getty in 1857, he mentions the ialler had informed him that his
proposed work on the " Statistics and Antiquities of the Baronies of Castlereagh. in Doivn.
and of Belfast, in Antrini," was so emilled i)ecause there was no historicil mention of Belbst
M a town before Eliiabeth's time. He was anxious to e've all the early history he had
collected of the district, and therefore chose the wider title. Unlorlunaiely, Getty died before
he could carry out his projected work, of which only the prospectus exists. He was well
qualified for such an enterprise, as his History of the Harbour of Belfast shows. (Pinkerton
has left a note on it as follows— " Harbour of Belfast. This was the Hist of a series of works
on the Harbours of the United Kingdom ordeied to be compiled by the Harbour Department
of the Admiralty. As the names of places were taken in alphabetical succession, Belbst was
thus the first. The Admiralty, however, changing their mind, printed no more of the series,
and rigidly suppressed this immediately after, if not before, publication. There is no copy
in the British Museum ! The Admiralty, in compiling the work, were greatly aided by the
late Edmund Getty, of Belfast, who presented this copy to his friend W. P. in the Golden
Cross, Charily Cross, London, on the iglh June, 1855. This work must consequeittly be
very rare.") His novel, published anonymously, called The Lvl King of Ulster, 3 vols.,
London, 1841. is almost unknown, but is well worthy to be ranked with Sir Samael
Fei^son's Hibernian l^igAii. Secretary of the Marliour Board Itom 1837, his antiquarian
knowledge was of eminent service in the dispute between Lords Doni^ll and Templen

:n r^jard to the ownership of the bed and soil of the River Logai

Lords Doni^ll and Templemore

NOTES. 253

Page I. Savage of the English Conquest

The two chief branches of the great Anglo-Norman family of Savage (originally Le
Sauvage) were that of Derbyshire and Cheshire, represented by the Viscounts Savage and
Earls Rivers (titles now extinct), and that of Ulster, mainly seated in the Ards, but formerly
possessed also of extensive territories in Antrim and in Lecale. The founder of the family
was Le Sieur Thomas Le Sauvage, whose name appears in Brompton's Chronicle and other
documents as having accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy, A. D. 1066. The
founder of the ^reat Ulster branch, the members of which played such a conspicuous part in
early Anglo-Irish history, was Sir William Le Savage, who appears to have been
a son of Sir Geoffrey Le Savage, of Stainesby, in Derbyshire, who was great-grandson of
the above-mentioned Thomas I^ Sauvage. Sir William Le Savage accompanied De
Courcy in the invasion of Ulster, A.D. 11 77, established himself in the Ards, and was
subsequently a Palatine Baron. Ardkeen Castle, the chief seat of the branch known as " the
Savages of Ardkeen,'* is referred to by De Courcy in his Charter to Black Abbey in the
Ards, A.D. I180 ; and Portaferry Castle was no doubt built about the same time. William
Baron Le Savage was succeeded in the representation of the family by his son, Sir Robert Le
Savage, Knt. (living in 1204), who was succeeded by his son, Henry Le Savage (living in
1259, died al>out 1277), who was succeeded by his son, Henry Le Savage (born Au^st 10,
1270), whose successor was Sir Robert Savage (who died in 1360), a very famous knight, on
whom, for his services, Edward IIL bestowed very extensive estates in Antrim, and whose
Antrim seat was Lisanoure Castle. Sir Robert was succeeded by his son, Henry, Lord
Savage, a Baron by writ-of-summons, who was succeeded in the representation of the family by
Sir Robert Savage, Knt. (last mentioned in 1389), who was the first sheriff of the Ards, then
constituted a distinct county, and who, besides his Ards and Antrim territories, became,
through his conflicts with the Irish, possessed also of Lecale. He marrierl Christiana
MacDonnell, daughter of John, Lord of the Isles, and granddaughter of Robert II.
of Scotland. lie was succeeded by Robert Savage (died about 1469), who was
succeeded by Patrick Savage (died atx>ut 1482), who was succeeded by Sir Roland
Savage, Knt., Seneschal of Ulster, who died in 1519. Sir Roland's son and successor
was Raymond Savage, surnamed Ferdoragh Mac Seneschal, "the dark son of the
Seneschal." Owing to the combination of forces ranged against him, Raymond Savage
lost his hold of Lecale. A contention now arose l)etween him and his near kinsman, another
Roland, for supremacy in the Ards. The strife was long and disastrous, and at last both
parties agreed to refer the subject of dispute to the Lord Deputy and Council ; and in A. D. 1559
they appeared before their Lordships and prayed them to ' * put a quiet and loving end to
their differences. The enrolment of the Treaty established between them is in the Patent
and Close Rolls in the Record Of!ice, Dublin, dated 1559. It does not appear that this
document confers any actual right of precedence upon one party or the other. Roland was
to have the rights of ** Captain of his Nation *' within the lands which correspond to the
Portaferry estate, with, clearly, Portaferry Castle as the centre ; and Raymond was to have
the rights of ** Captain of his Nation " within the lands which correspond to the Ardkeen
estate, with Ardkeen (** Ardkyne *') Cattle as the centre. Thus the Little Ards were pretty
evenly divided between Roland and Raymond Savage, whose descendants respectively have
been known ever since as the Savages of Portaferry and the Savages of Ardkeen. This Roland
Savage was not a brother of Raymond, and Raymond was undoubtedly the son and repre-
sentative of Sir Roland Savage, the Seneschal, who was the representative of the Savage
family in Ulster, and the most powerful of the name, in his time. Their adoption of the
tanbtry custom makes questions of precedency in Irish and Norman-Irish families often
very difficult to determine. Raymond was, as we have seen, surnamed Mac Seneschal,
*' the son of the Seneschal," and his descendants were known always as the ** Family of the
Seneschal;" and under the Castle Hill of Ardkeen is a little inlet of the Lough still
called Seneschal's Port. Montgomery is right in saying that the Savages of Portaferry
were (subsequently) styled ** Lords Savage," and this was probably through some of them
having been, like the common ancestor Heniy, Baron Savage, summoned to Parliament by writ
(see p. 139). Montgomery was connected with lx)th branches of the family, but more closely
with the Portaferry branch than with the Ardkeen branch. The Ardkeen estates were sold in
1837 to the late Mr. Harrison, of Belfiast, and are now the property of Captain Harrison, of
Holywood, Co. Down. The present representative of the Savages of Ardkeen in the direct
male line is Colonel Henry John Savage, of Southsea, son of the late Lieut. -General Henry
John Savage, r.e. , formerly of Ballygalget (Rock Savage), Co. Down ; grandson of Major-
General Sir John Boscawen Savage, of Ballygalget (Rock Savage), k.c.b., k.c.h., &c. ; and
great-great-great-grandson of Captain Hugh Savage, of Ardkeen, who died in 1723. The last
of the Savages of Ardkeen who resided in the Ards were the Glastry branch, who are repre-
sented by G. F. Savage-Armstrong, Elsq., M.A., d.lit., &c., of Beech Hurst, Bray, Co.
Wicklow, and Rushbrooke, Queenstown, Co. Cork, grandson of the Rev. Henry Savage, of
Glastry, J.P., Incumbent of Ardkeen, and great-great-grandson (maternally) of Francis

254 Old Belfast.

Savage, of Ardkeen, Esq., High Sheriff of Co. Down« who died in 1770. The Savages of
Portafeny happily still hold their ancient hereditary estates in the Little Ards, and are
represented by Lieut -General Andrew Nugent, J.P. and D.L., late Lt.-Col. commandiDg
Royal Scots Gteys, whose grandfather, Lt.-CoL Andrew Savage, on inheriting a portion
of the fortune of his maternal grand-uncle, Governor Nugent, assumed by Royal T,lcenne
the name of Nugent, and claimed the Barony of Delvin. The Savages, now Nugents,
of PORTAFERRY, are the only Anglo-Norman family in Ulster who still possess and reside
upon lands won by their ancestors at the Conquest, A.D. 1 177. An admirable and exhaus-
tive history of the Ulster Savages will be found in the sumptuous volume entitled, **The
Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards," published by Messrs. Marcos Ward
& Co., Belfast, 1888.

Page 4. Piers and Malbib

Some accountof these Elizabethan soldiers and their exploits is^veninSir Henry Sidney's
Memoir of his Government in Ireland, edited by H. F. Hore {Ulster Journal of Archirology^
vol. iii. p. 33). Hill's MacDonnells of Antrim^ p. 144, contains some reference to Piers,
who pickled Shane CNeilPs head in a pipkin, and sent it to I/ord-Deputy Sydney. Piers
was Seneschal of Claneboy, and also Constable of Carrickfergus Castle. He is frequently
mentioned as Mayor in the Town Records of Carrickfergus MS., which the Editor is pre-
paring for publication. A curious entry occurs in 1 571, showing that the peasantry were
remiss in their military duties. ** At a court held on 26 June, 157 1, before Richard Sendall,
Mayor, and Wolston Elderton and Cornelius Ochan, Sheriffs, in the Town House of
Carrickfergus, It was ordered for that the Mayor, sending his officers to warne as well
the Husbandmen or Labourers, as also ther Garrons, to be in redinesse for the service of bur
Majestye, that the sayd husbandmen for filing away should pave for the want of every
Garron five shill*- currant mony of England, and for filing away of every such husbandman
or labourer Twelve pense sterl." In 1575, " Daniell Beggahan and Murlo O'Hcnry, for
hiding themselves and their garrons, were fined 7s. 8d." It is mentioned in a letter in the
StcUe Paper Office, dated 25 September, 1567, at Carrickfergus, that Robert Lyth has
arrived in the town, "and has drawn two plats" of it. This was the curious map given
in Ulster Journal of Archaology^ vol. iii. p. 276. It represents this ancient seaport the
year before Sir Henry Sydney's visit, and six years prior to its burning by Sir Brian O'Neill.
For one of W. Pinkerton's most valuable papers, entitled, **The 'Pallace' of Carrick-
fergus," with coloured plate, see Ulster Journal of Archaology^ vol. vii. p. I.

Page II. Irish Linen Yarns

The history of the Irish linen trade has yet to be written in an exhaustive manner.
Many references occur in the State Papers which have not yet been utilised. The earliest
notice of linen in Ireland is given by Froissart, time of Richard II. Henry Castide, an Italian
traveller, told him — **I caused breeches of litun cloth to be made for the four Kings of
Ireland when I was there." Pinkerton intended to treat of it thoroughly in his History oj
Belfast. Some of his notes are subjoined. ** In 1572, Queen Elizabeth granted one Thomas
Moore a license to transplant from Ireland three thousand packs of linen yarn in five years.
The Mayors of Dublin and Drogheda with others petitioned for the withdrawal of the license,
asserting that three thousand packs was a greater cjuantity of yarn than the whole realm of
Ireland could produce in the five years limited. — State Papers. [Note. — I have somewhere
met with the weight or measure of a pack of woollen yarn, but not of linen.] iSSo* William
Fyan received the grant in fee farm of a nunnery called the Hogges, beside Dublin, annual
value £g 13s. 4d., on entering into recognisance to erect and set upon the site of that late
suppressed nunnery six looms of linen and woollen yarn in the space of 'one year {SteUe
Papers). Oct. 21, 1550. Lord Deputy St. Leger writes to the English Privy Council that he
has prohibited the exportation of wool, tallow, butter, linen yarn, &c., from Ireland, as it
only encouraged idleness " {State Papers). Many other notices might be given besides those
cited above.

Sir H. Sydney writes to Secretary Walsingham in 1576, relative to licenses for export-
ing yarn, that he is ** loth to destroy a creature of his own making," and an invention of his
own for setting people to work at home, and not to transport the commodity raw and
unwrought, as they were accustomed. In Strafford's Letters (of which the Editor possesses
the late Bishop Reeves' annotated copy), several references to the linen trade occur. He
writes to Sir William Boswell, probably Minister in Holland in 1635, from Dublin, ''The
bearer I send to buy some Flax seed, which I find by this last year's trial to take extremely
well in this country ; and very ambitious I am to set up a trade of Linnen Clothing in these
parts ; which, if God bless, so as to be effected, will, I dare say, be the greatest enriching to
this Kingdom that ever befel it (vol. i. p. 473)." On Strafford s trial, charge thirteenth was
as follows : — " That he monopolised all the flax of the kingdom, and prescribed rules and
methods of making yarn and thread which the natives could not practise, and ordering all
made in any other manner to be seized, which was accordingly executed with severity, by
which multitudes were ruined and many starved."

NOTES.

255

In the Treasure of Traffic y published in 1641, mention is made of Liverpool as a great
market in which Irish merchants disposed of their linen yams.

In an early Northern Whig^ Samuel M'Skimin gave some notes on the progress
of manufacturing by machinery in the County of Antrim. It is noted: — " 1741 —
William Dobbin, Belfast, invented the Beetling Engine for Linen Cloth, which was formerly
beetled by hand. 1749— Francis Joy, Randalstown, established a mill for dressing flax,
which is thus described at the time, *A complete new mill for dressing flax was finished
and set to work at Randalstown by Francis Joy, which will dress 14 lb. of flax in an hour,
fit for the heckle.' 1 777 — The printing of cotton and linen cloths was established at
Greencastle by Nicholas Grimshaw. 1801 — The Linen Board offered large premiums to
such as would erect mills for spinning hemp or flax by water or steam. The writer supposes
that the flrst spinning mill erected in Antrim was in the vicinity of Crumlin or Stoneyford."

Robert S. Macadam as far back as 1837 had collected *' Notes on the History of Belfast
Spinning, &c. , and probably intended to write about it. Some of his notes are curious.
** E. Getty has a letter written by his grand-uncle to his landlord about a farm for keeping
cows for giving buttermilk to bleach. He understands that the ancestor of Bradshaw, of
Mile Cross, Co. Down, flrst introduced diapers and damasks, and went over to Holland to
get men, &c.'' He gives the following list of flax spinning mills as at work in January, 1836,
m the North of Ireland : —

1. Andrew Mulholland & Co., Belfast.

2. S. K. Mulholland, Hind & Co., Belfast.

3. J. & J. Herdman & Co., Belfast.

4. J. & J. Herdman & Co., Francis Street.

5. John Boyd & Co., Belfast.

6. John Murphy & Co., Belfast.

7. Charters. Coates & Gamble, Belfast.

8. Stewart & M'Clelland, near Belfast.

9. Robert Thompson, near Belfast.

10. Dr. M'Kibbin, near Belfast.

11. John Montgomery & Co., Grove, Belfast,

Co. Down.

12. Jas. Grimshaw & Son, Whitehouse.

13. Edmund Grimshaw, Mossley.

14. R & R. Watt, Doagh.

15. W. Cunliffe, Glynn.

16. Walker & Co., Carrickfergus.

17. Jas. Murland & Son, Castlewellan.

18. Samuel Law, Banbridge.

19. Dunbar, Stewart & Co., Gilford.

20. William Hudson, near Newry.

21. Joseph Nicholson & Son, Newry.

22. A. & J. Davison, Broughshane.

23. T. & A. Davison, Laragh, near Castle-

blayney.

24. H. M'Kean, Ready.

25. Smith, near Ballymoney.

26. Herdman, Lyons & Co., near Strabane.

27. W. Cowan & Co., Whiteabbey.

Names of the present Bleachers in the Province of Ulster (iSjgX compiled

by R. S» Macadam,

ANTRIM.

Pieces per an.
Jonathan and Jas. Richardson bleach about 35.000
Jas. W. Richardson & Sons
Coulsons
Roberts
M 'Cance

W. Orr . . ^

Sadler, Fenton & Co. (Springfield)

R. Howie & Co

W. J. Moore

Thos. Macky & Co.

Ino. F. Ferguson

Al ichael Andrews (Kilroot)

W.Gray

W. Chaine & Sons
Thos. Ferguson & Sons . .
Miller (Ross)
David kirk
W. Johnston
W. Gihon & Sons

& R. Young

& D. Curelf

. & A. Barklie (Lame) . .

., (CuUybackey) . .

Smith k Co. (Ballyclare)
M'Conkey & Howie (Lambeg)
H. Bragg & Son . .
Beck (near Antrim)

Henry Murland
Crawford . .
Mulligan . .
E. C. Clibbom
Richard Hayes

{. Smyth & Co.
as. M'Clelland
fprichard

DOWN.

40,000

12,000

15,000

18,000

25,000

45.000

18,000

xo,ooo

25,000

20,000

30,000

50,000

25,000

ia,ooo

15,000

10,000

30,000

40,000

30,000

5.000

15,000

X 5.000

25,000

5,000

15,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

25,000

40,000

15,000

Isaac Stoney

Ino. Christy

Benjamin Haughton

W. Nicholson (Donacloney) ..

Brown ,,

M'Clelland & M • Murray (Dromore)

Jas. Andrews & Sons (Comber)

Pieces per an.

bleach about 15,000

15,000

ARMAGH.

Jos. M'Kee(Keady)
Sam. Kyd ..
Alex. Kyd..
W. Kirk ..

TYRONE.

Sproull (Strabane)

Gunning & Moore (Cookstown)

Jonathan Pike ..

Henry Atkinson (Moy) . .

O'Neill (Strabane)

Gwynne

DONEGAL.
J. & J. Johnson (Ballybofey) . .

LONDONDERRY.

Smith & M'CIellandXArdmore)
Lyle (Oaks)

Pollock & Smith (Garvagh)
S. Bennett (Coleraine) . .
Hemphill & Co. (Coleraine) . .
Bennet & Adams „
G. & A. Barklie „

S. & T. Alexander (Derry)
Alexander (NewtownUnuivady)
„ (Maghent) ..

I*
II

• t

!•

II
I*

• I

II
II

II
II
II
II
t»
»»
It

10,000
25,000
20,000
25.000
20,000

x8,ooo
30,000
15,000
30,000

15,000
xo,ooo

15,000

5|OOo

5,000

15,000

25,000

30,000
30,000
25.000
90,000
50,000
25,000
a5.ooo
5.000

XO,0OO

xo,ooo

256 Old Belfast.

Page 15. And how Sir Brian hath lately burnt

The Records of Carrickfergus MS. note — "Curia tenta secundo die Junii an®- I573t
coram dpitainn Guilielm Pierse Major, Wolston Elderton and Johannem Deere* Vice
com^- in le Town house de Knockfergus. In this yeare the 2** day of June was this Towne
of Knockfergus for the most part destroyed by fier, bv reason of Captaine Smithes departure
out of the same with his force, not leaving sufficient force to defend the same, by Sur Brian
M'Phellime and his co-perteners. In the same yeare abought the 20**» of August came the
right honorable the Earle of Essex into this land as Lord Governour of the Province of Ulster,
accompanied with many a lusty Gentleman, and landed in this Towne of Knockfergus. ''

Page 16. Answer to the Lord Treasurer's Objections

The Records of drrickfergus MS. contain the following reference to this dispute : —
** 1594. The loth of June, William Lymsey, Recorder, and Humfery Jhonson, of the Same
Town, Alderman, being appointed and chosen by the whole consente of the Towne to be
Agents for the obtaynenge of thear Aunlyent Lands and Comons, departed the Towne the day
and yeare aforesayde for England, for the graunte and passing whearof they obtayned the
Quene*s letter to S' William Russell, then L^ Deputy, and the Counsell, and from them a
Commission under the greate scale of Ireland for the Boundinge and mearinge thearof."
There is a small map of the County Palatine of Carrickfergus in the Barony maps of the Down
Survey, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, showing the Silver Stream as the western
boundary, and Coplin Water running down to the town out of Lough Moume, a lake which
derived its name from the M'Mornas, subsequently M'Gillmores.

Page 20. Sir A. Chichester and Island Magee. 1601

Richard Dobbs, in his description of Co. Antrim, 1683, printed in Hill's Mac Donnells
of Antrim^ says of Island Magee : — "This Island once belonged to the Earl of Essex, who
was beheaded in the lime of Queen Elizabeth : his patent was once in my hands. " The
lease of the island granted by Sir A. Chichester to Sir Moses has very recently fallen in,
and the property has reverted to the Marquis of Donegall. Dobbs gives the definition
Island Magee from the ''Magces that lived here in former times." **John Magie of the
Gat '* is mentioned in the Records of Carrickfergus as having a quarter share of common
land in 1606. '* Hugh Magy, of Hand Magee, gent.," was a juror in 1613.

Page 21. Letter from Thomas Walker

This curious letter, with its apology for the writer's failure to assassinate the Earl of
Tyrone, seems not to have been published. It is printed from a copy in the Macadam MSS.
For references to this and other attempts at his assassination, see Life of Hugh Roe
C Donnelly by Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J., ll.d. (p. cli.).

Page 23. Inquisition taken at Ardquin

This is a part of the papers concerning Sir Thomas Smith's grant, which occupy many
pages of MS. in Pinkerton's handwriting. They were largely used by Benn, and much of
the matter also appears in Hill's Mont^mtry Manuscripts. Pinkerton has the following
note relative to the boundary of Smith's territory, taken from this Inquisition : — * • Untu
where the river of BlackstafT falls into Lough Conn, there the mearing between the great and
little Ardes proceeds direct through the middle of the river of BlackstafT and by the middle of
the ford of Belfast, and on the same river until the river aforesaid emierges from a certain
moor called in English the bog of Portabogagh." This was a line following the Lagan to
its source, and thence probably to Dundrum Bay, as a stream called the Blackstaff is shown
at this point on the ordnance map.

Page 27. Timber in Ulster

Pinkerton gives no clue about this extract. There is an account of the great wood at
Portmore, in Kilultagh, belonging to Sir Fulke Conway, in Johnstone's Heterogenea^ Down-
patrick, 1803. Arthur Stringer, huntsman to Lord Conway, in his Experienced Huntsman^
belfast, 1 714, gives a graphic account of hunting the deer in this forest of 3,000 acres. (See
•* An Account of some Notable Books printed in Belfast," by Robert M. Young, in The
Library y May, 1895.)

Page 28. The Plantation of Ulster

This letter affords a valuable insight into the real character of the Ulster settlers. Lord
Chichester preferred Devonshire families for his estate about Belfast. The portrait of the
great founder of Belfast, as he may justly be styled, is a slightly-reduced facsimile of the
very rare engraving published by I. Thome in 1781, from a copy m Pinkerton's MSS. For
an account of Lord Chichester and view of his tomb, see Town Book of Belfast ^ p. 220, et seq.

Page 30. Assizes held in Ulster, a.d. 1615

The original Record of the Ulster Roll of Gaol Delivery, 1613-16x8, in the Exchequer
Record Office, Dublin, was translated from Latin by J. F. Ferguson, and partly printed in

Notes.

257

Ulster Journal of Archaology, vols. i. , ii. The portion now given was not used by Macadam,
but is printed here as an interesting contribution to local history. Mr. C. H. Brett kindly
contributes the following legal notes : —

In indictments for homicide, it was usual to express the value of the weapon, although
the value was immaterial. This was done because the instrument was forfeited as a Deodand
to the King, and the township was liable for its value if it were not forthcoming.

The reason for stating the value of the goods in indictments in cases of larceny was
that, until the reign of George IV., there was an important distinction between grand larceny
and petty larceny, the former comprising all cases where the goods were above twelve pence
in value.

Under the Saxon laws, theft, if above the value of twelve pence, was nominally punished
with death ; but the prisoner was permitted to redeem his life by a pecuniary ransom. But
by 9 Henry I. larceny above twelve pence became a hanging matter, and so continued until
7 and 8 George IV. in England, 9 George IV. in Ireland.

Grand larceny was a "clergyable** offence — /.*., the prisoner was entitled to the
" benefit of clergy."

From the pious regard paid to the Church, exemptions of the persons of clergy from
criminal proceedings before the secular judge were originally granted in a few particular
cases. Then the clergy extended the exemptions and persons until they comprehended
every little subordinate office belonging to the Church or clergy. Originally, no man was
admitted to the privilege of clergy but such as had the tonsure and habit ; but in process
of time everyone who could read was accounted a clericus^ and allowed the benefit of
clerkship.

When, after the invention of printing, learning became more disseminated, so many lay-
men claimed the privilege that, by statute 4 Henry VII. c. 13, a distinction was drawn
between lay scholars and clerks in orders.

By this statute a person could claim benefit of clergy only once, unless he produced his
orders ; and all laymen who were allowed the privilege were to be burnt with a hot iron in
the brawn of the left thumb.

After this burning, the laity, and before it the real clergy, were discharged from the
sentence of the law in the King's Courts, and delivered over to the Bishop, to be dealt with
according to the Ecclesiastical Canons.

Then the Bishop set himself formally to make a purgation of the offender by a new
canonical trial, held before himself or his deputy and a jury of 12 clerks. Before them, the
party made oath of his own innocence ; next 12 compurgators swore they believed he spoke
the truth ; then witnesses for the prisoner only were examined, and the jury generally
acquitted the prisoner !

This scandalous state of things continued until the time of Queen Elizabeth, when a
statute provided that after an offender had been allowed his clergy and been burned, he
should be enlarged ; but the judge might continue him in gaol for not more than a year.

By a statute of William III., burning in the hand was changed to burning in the most
visible part of the left cheek nearest the nose, and this continued till by a statute of Anne it
was repealed, and benefit of clergy granted to all who were entitled to ask it without requir-
ing them to read.

LIST OF THE HIGH SHERIFFS OF COUNTY ANTRIM, 1603-1895.

1603.
1613.
x6i§.
i6a3.
1625.
1626.
1627.
1628.
1629.
1630.
1631.
1632.

»633-
1634.

»635.
1636.
1659.
1660.
1661.
1662.
1663.
1664.
i66s.
1666.

Thomas Pavell, Carrickfergus.
Sir Hugh Clot worthy, ,,
Sir Hugh Clotworthy, Antrim.
Sir Hueh Clotworthy, ,,
Moses Hill, Strandmillis.
Neal Oge O'Neill, Killylagh.
Cormick O'Hara, Crcabilly.
William Huston, Craigs Castle.
Alexander M'Donnell, Gleoarm.
Robert Adair. Ballymena.
Arthur O'Neill.
Alexander Stuart, Ballintoy.
John Donaldson, Glenarm.
Arthur Hill.

Edward Maxwell. Connor.
John Dalway, Bellahill.
Arthur Upton, Templepatrick.
John Shaw, Bush.
Hercules Lansford.
Alexander Dalway, Bellahill.
Thomas Warrin, Belfast.
Richard Dobbs, Castle Dobbs.
John Donaldson, Glenarm.
Anthony Horsman, Carrickfergus.

1667. Francis Stafford, Portglrnone.

1668. Patrick Agnew, Ballygally.

1669. Archibald Edmonston, Red Hall.

1670. Sir Robert Colville, Galgorm.

167 1. Geoi^e Macartney, Belfast. ^

1672. William Upton, Templepatrick.

1673. Thadeus O'Hara, Creabtlly.

1674. John Galland, Vow.

1675. Randall Brice, Kilroot.

1676. William Huston, Craigs Castle.

1677. William Lesley, Ballymonev.

1678. Edward Hamson, Kilultagh.

1679. Heniy Spencer, jun., Trummery.

1680. Ran(!tall Smith, Lisbum.
x68i. George Macartney, Belfast.
i68a. John Bickerstaffe, Rosegift.

1683. John Bickerstaffe died 30 May ; succeeded

by Charles Stuart.

1684. Henry Davys, Carrickfergus.

1685. Thomas Knox, Belfast.

1686. Cormick O'Neill, Broughshane.

1687. Cormick O'NeUl,

1688. Shane O'Neill.

1689. Shane O'Neill.

258

Old Belfast.

[691. Thomas Smith, appointed 90 November.

1692. Thomas Smith.

t693. William Shaw, Bash.

[694. Richard Dobbs, jun., Ballynure.

[695. Clotworthy Upton, Templepatrick.

1696. Sir Robert Adair, Ballymena.

1697. Michael Harrison, Lisbum.
[698. Edmond Ellb, Brookhill.
[699. Andrew Clements, Straid.
170a John O'Neill, Shanescastle.
[701. John Davys, Carrickfergus.
[703. Benjamin Galland, Vow.
[703. Charles O'Neill, Shanescastle.
(704. Brent Spencer, "rrummery.
t705* John Davys^ Carrickfergus.
1706. Westema Waring, Belfast.
[707. Edward Clements, Straid.
[708. Benjamin Galland, Vow.
[709. Arthur Davys, Carrickfergus.
t7io. William Shaw, Bush, died 28 June.

Andrew Clements, Straid.

t7ii. Andrew Clements, Straid.

[7x2. Westema Waring, Belfast.

r7X3. Brent Spencer, Lisburn.

[714. Robert Green, Belfast.

[7T5. Edmd. T. Suflford, Mount Stafford.

1716. Edward Clements, Straid.

[717* Tames Hamilton, Cloughmills.

[718. William Moore.

t7t9. Hercules Upton, Templepatrick.

[720. Arthur Dobbs, Castle Dobbs.

[721. Francis Clements. Straid.

t722. Henry O'Hara, Creabilly.

1723. William Johnston, Glynn.

[734. Ezekiel Wm. Crombie, Cromore.

1725. Ezekiel D. Wilson, Carrickfergus.

1726. Sir Robert Adair, Ballymena.

1727. Rowley Hill.

1728. John Skefiington, Dervock.
[729. Charles O'Neill, Shanescastle.

1730. Valentine Jones, Belfast.

1731. Alexander Stuart, Ballintoy.

1732. John Moore.
[733. Hector M'Neale.

[734. Hugh Boyd, Ball)rca<itle.

[735. John Huston, Craigs Castle.

[736. Clotworthy O'Neill, Randalstown.

1737. Hill Wilson, Purdysbum.

[738. EUiward Smith, Lisbum.

[739. Davys Wilson, Carrickfergus.

1740. William Boyd, Ballycastle.

[741. Conway Spencer, Trummery,

[742. Felix O'Neill, ONeills' Brook.

L743. George Macartney, Belfast.

[744. William Aenew^ Kilwaughter.

1745. Charles M Daniel, Clogher.

(746. John Cuppage, Ballycastle.

[747. Edmond M'Naghten, Beardeville.

[748. Edward Brice, Kilroot.

1749. Roger M'Neill.

1750. Roger Moore, Cloverhill.
[751. John Dunkin, Clogher.

[752. Conway R. Dobbs, Castle Dobbs.

L753. Robert Adair, Ballymena.

1754. Bernard O'Neill, "Iriminary.

(755* John Rowan, Bellisle.

[756. John M'Naghten, Benvarden.

C757. Arthur Upton, Templepatrick.

1 758. Charles O' Hara, O' Hara's Brook.

[759. James Lesley^ Leslie Hill.

[760. Richard Maginnis, Lisburn.

[761. Alex. Boyd, jun., Ballycastle.

[762. Alexander Stuart, Ballintoy.

1763. John Henry, Clover Hill.

[764. Rowley Heyland, Crumlin.

[765. Charles Hamilton, Portglenone.

1766. Alexander M'Auley, Cushendall.

[767. Sampson Moore. Moore Lodge.

[768. Thomas Thomson, Greenmount.

[769. Bryan M'Manus, Mountdavis.

[770. Alexander Legge. Malone.

1771. Lord Dunluce, Glenarm.

[772. John O'Neill, Shanescastle.

[773. Hugh Boyd, Ballycastle.

1774. St. John O'Neill, PortgleDone.

1775. Robert Morris Jones, MoneygUus, died in

Feb., and Sam. Brtstow was appointed in
his room.

776. Ezekiel D. Boyd, Ballycastle.

777. William Dunkin, Clogher.

778. William Moore, Killagan.

779. Robert Rowan, BelliJe.

780. William Legge, Malone.

781. Barthw. M'Naehten, Carrinelass.

782. Alexander M'Manus, Mountdavis.

783. John Brown, Belfast.

784. John Crombie, Cromore.

785. Henry O'Hara, O'Hara's Brook.

786. John Allen, Springmount.

787. Robert Gage. RaUilin.

788. Henry W.Shaw, Ballytweedy.

789. Charles Crymble, Ballyclare.

790. Samuel Allen, Allen's Brook.

791. Richard G. Ker. Red Hall.

792. Hugh Boyd, Ballycastle.

793. Edmd. A. M'Naghten, Beardeville.

794. Roger Moore, Clover Hill.

795. Stewart Banks, Belfast.

796. James Watson, Brookhill.

797. Honble. Chichester Skeffington, Belfast.

798. James S. Moore, Ballydivity.

799. James Lesley, Prospect.

800. Geo. A. M'Claverty, Glynn.

Boi. Thomas B. Adair, Loughanmore.

802. Langford Heyland, Glenoak.

803. Eklward J. ^new, Kilwaughter.
B04. Hugh Montgomery, Benvarden.

805. Sir Henry V. Tempest, Glenann.

806. Honble. John V. O'NeiU, Tullamore.

807. Francis M'Naghten, Clogher.

808. William Moore, Moore Lodge.

809. Sampson Moore.

810. Ezekiel D. Boyd, Ballycastle.

811. James Caulfield.

812. John Campbell.

813. George Brtstow, Belfast.

814. John Rowan, Lame.

815. James Agnew Farrell, Lame.

816. Robert 'Thompson, Greenmount.

817. Samuel Thompson.

818. Right Hon. T. H. Skeffington, Antrim.
8x9. John Montgomery, Benvarden.

820. Edmund M'Donnell, Glenann.

821. John Crombie, Cromore.

822. The Hon. H. R. Pakenham, Langford Lodffe.

823. W. W. Legge, Malone.

824. Francis Tumly.
835. George Hutchmson, Ballymoney.

826. Alexxmder M'Manus, Mountdavis.

827. John M'Cance, Suffolk.

828. Cunningham Greg, Belfast.

829. Nich. D. Crommelin^ Carrowdore Castle.

830. Richard Magenis, Dirraw.

831. George H. Macartney, Lissanoure.

832. Alexander M'Neile, Ballycastle.

833. Charles O* Hara, O" Hara's Brook.

834. David Ker, Red Hall.

835. Hugh Leckey, Bushmills.

836. Edward Bruce, Scoutbush.

837. Edmund C. MacNaghten.

838. James Owens, Holestone.

839. James Agnew, Fisherwick.

840. Thomas Gr^, Ballymenoch.

841. Conway R. Dobbs, Castle Dobbs.

842. Alex. H. Halliday, Clifden.

843. John M'Neile, Parkmount.

844. John M'Gildowney. Ballycastle.

845. John White, Brougnshane.

846. Thomas M. H. Jones, Moneyglass.

847. William Moore, Moorefort.

848. Charles M'Garel, Lame.

849. James S. Moore, Ballydivity. ^

850. Alexander Montgomery, Antrim.
85 X. James T. Tennent, Belfast.

852. Robert Smyth, Gaybrook.

853. R. A. S. Adair, Ballymena.

854. Tames E. Leslie, Ballymoney.

855. Lord Robert Montagu, Portstewart.

Notes.

259

1856.

1857.
1858.
1859.
z86o.
1861.
1862.
1863.
1864.
186c;.
i866.

1867.
1868.
1869.
187a
1871.
1872.

1873.
X874.

1875.

Ambrose O'Rorke, Ballybolan.

Robert Grimshaw, Whitehouse.

Andrew Mulholland, Springvale.

George Gray, Graymount,

Henry Hugh M'Neile, Parkmount.

H. H. Hamilton OHara, Crcbilly House.

Fredk. H. Henry, Lodge Park, Co. Kildare.

John Young, Galgorm Castle.

William Coates, Glentoran.

John F. Ferguson, Belfast.

W. T. B. Lyons, Old Park.

Sir Edward Coey. Knt., Merville.

Richard Henry Magenis, Deraw.

John Thomson, Low-wood.

Robert Jas.^ Montgomery, Benvardoi.

Henry Adair.

Robert C. Thomson, Castleton.

James Chaine, Ballycraigy.

Thos. Casement (spring). Bailee House.

1. F. Montgomery (sum.), Ballydrain.

R. J. Alexander, Portglenone House.

1876. Sir CHiarles Lanyon, Knt., The Abbey.

1877. Sir P* £• Macnashten, Bart., Dundarave.

1878. James Owens, Holestone.

1879. c^mund M'Neill, Craigdun.

1880. James Stewart Moore, Ballydivity.

1881. John Casement, Magherintemple.

1883. Anthony Traill. ll.d., Ballylough House.

1883. Ogilvie B. Graham, Larchneld.

1884. Wm. Ford Hutchinson, Stranocum House.
T885. Thomas Montgomery, Ballydrain.

1880. Samuel Allen, ll.d., Lisconnan.

1887. Major-General Henry Cole Magenis, Finvoy

Lodge.

1888. Montagu Wm. Edwd. Dobbs, Castle Dobbs.

1889. Capt. fames Sinclair Cramsie, O'Harabrook.

1890. Wm. Moore, m.d., Moore Lodge.

1 891. John Macaulay, Red Hall.

189a. Geo. Edmonstone Kirk, Thomfield.

1893. Victor Coates. Rathmore.

1894. Henry Jones M'Cance, Larkfield.

1895. Harold Wm. Stannus Gray, Graymount.

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importance of Belfast at that time in comparison with Co. Antrim : —

COPY OF GRAND WARRANT FOR LEVYING COUNTY ANTRIM CESS, PRESENTED AT

CARRICKFERGUS ASSIZES, AUGUST, X744.

To James M'Callcy for sweeping the House of Correction

To Jacob Clark for one year's Salary as keeper of the House of Correction

Assues, August, 1744— Edmund M'Naehton, Esq., and Nich. Stuart Repairing 640 Perches of
Great Road from Glenarm to Brou^hshane

To Wm. Henry Blair, Esq., for Repainng the Great Road from Larne to Brough&hane

To Wm. Agnew, E.sq., for Full Finishing the Great Road from Lame to Belfast

To James Webster for Killing Vermin

To James Allen for repairing 302 Perches of Road from Carrickfergus to Island Magee

To Henry Burleigh for Repairing Six mile water Bridge

To Francis Clements, Esq., for Full finishing 381 Perches of Great Road from Belfast to Lame ..

To Kennedy Stafford, Esq., for Repairing that Part of the Road from Randalstown to Portglenone

To John Blizard to Reimburse him sum expended in repairing Bridge Near Ballinderry Church..

To Mary Reid for Killing One Otter

To Charles O'Hara for Killing Five Otters ..

To Randal Flanagan for Killing Eight Otters

To Charles Craig for Killins Vermin ....

To Arch. Brown and Wm. White for Killing Two Otters

To Arthur Hill, Robert Blackwood, Esqs., Rev. Bernard Ward, and Mr. Daniel Mussenden Re-
pairing Belfast Bridge . . . .

To Robert Kennedy and Daniel O'Neill for Repairing 600 perches of the Road from Turaemoyl
Hill to Shanescastle

To Bryan M'Laverty for Killing Vermin .. ..

To Cornelius Crymble and Robert Wilson Carrying on and Repairing Road from Belfast to
Broughshane .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

To the Treasurer for half-a-year's Salary

To Rev. Thomas Finley for Relief of Prisoners in Gaol

To Jeremiah M'Cormack for Killing Vermin. .

To Robert Freer and John Sloan for Killing Vermin . .

To the Clerk of the Crown for Prosecuting the Overseers of the Highways

To .\ndrew Stewart and Pierce Cullen for apprehending and convicting Hugh Kitteagk M'Neill,
a notorious Robber

To Wm- Agnew, Esq., for Transporting Hugh Gullion and John M'Fall to America . .

To Wm. Henry Blair for Repairing Inver Bridge

To Wm. Glass for Repairing the Roof of Shire Hall . .

To Samuel Bristow, Esq., for Repairing^ Roof of Sessions House at Antrim

To S. Bristow and J_. Thompson Repairing 230 Perches of Road from BaJlycIare to Antrim

To Wm. Henry Blair for Repairing the Four Mile Bum Bridge .. .. ,,

To John Hamilton and Thomas Godfrey Repairing the Gaol of this County

To Anthony Charleton Repairing ^00 Perches of the Road from Randalstown to Portglenone

To Thomas M'Cutcheon for Repairing Carnalogh Bridge

To the Gaoler for one year's Salary . .

To Edward Smyth for repairing 1,000 Perches of the Road from Lisbum to Antrim

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Page 31. Robert Ope.nshaw

I ie was Dean of Connor, Rector of Carrickfergus, and Chaplain to Lord Chichester. It

is noted in the Records of Carrickfergus MS., undtr 5lh July, 1024 : — " It was also ordered,

condiscended, and agreed that the six Pounds which this Towne and Corporacione did

alio we and give unto Mr. Openshawe towards the payment of his house rent should be from

and after Michaelmas next reduced unto three rounds ster. per ann., with which three

Pounds he is to rest satisfyed and contented in that behalfe, and to have no more from the

Towne but 3 ster. yearelye. Note— The 25th Aprilis, 1625, being the assembly daye, this

was cancelled with a generall consent."

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Old Belfast.

Page 32. The Ancient Gallows called " The Three Sisters," Carrickfergus
Mr. Joseph W. Carey has reproduced the appearance of this once-dreaded place of execu-
tion from the description furnished by Mr. John Coates, J. P. See Ulster in *gS, by R. M.
Young : Marcus Ward & Co., 1893 » V^ Ed., p. 71.

Page 3$. "Ac interiora et membra secreta,*' &c.

This was the barbarous sentence, ** To be hung, drawn, and quartered.** The prisoner
was brought back to the gaol, his fetters taken off him, and he was led to the gallows and
there hung by the neck " ac semi-mortuus ad terram prosternatum ac interiora et membra
secreta ejus extra ventrem suum scindantur ipsumque adhuc viventem comburentur, et
caput ejus amputetur, quodque corpus ejus in quatuor partes diridatur et caput et quarteria
ilia disponantur ubi dominus Rex ei assignari velit."

Page 39. Order of the Exchequer

These grants are more particularly set out in the Patent Rolls ^]vimts L Chichester
seems to have shown here much consideration for these Northern chiefs. Sir Randah
McDonnell was the first Earl of Antrim, an intimate friend and kinsman of King James I.
(See Hill's MacDonnells of Antrim ^ passim.)

Page 41. Commission on Waste of Woods, 1625

The houses built particularly by the English settlers required much oak-wood, as many
of them in such towns as Derry, Coleraine, Antrim, &c., were half timbered. Such mansions
as Joymount and Belfast Castle, with their massive beams and rafters, could not have been
erected except large scantlings of timber were procured. In an old house recently taken
down in North Street, the Editor observed a large beam of oak, which may have come from
Belfast Castle. In Carrickfergus much old oak is to be met with, supposed by tradition to-
have been used at Joymount House. It is mentioned in the Records of Carrickfergus MS.
that persons are bound to build in the English manner of Cadge work, well tiled or slated.
In Phillips' View of Belfast many of the roofs are coloured red to show tiles.

Page 48. Dean Swift

In the Pinkerton AfSS. are several notices of Swift's connection with Belfast. Benn
has utilised these in what he states about Dr. W. Tisdall, Vicar of Belfast. Pinkerton has
copied the following extract from a fragment of one of Swift s letters in the Museum of the
Dublin Society : —

** Being in a vein of writing epigrams, I send you the following piece upon Tisdal, which
I intend to send to all his acquaintances ; for he goes from house to house to show his wit
upon me, for which I think it reasonable he should have something to stare him in the face :

UPON WILLIAM TISDAL, D.D.

" When a Roman wa.s dying, the next man of kin Any man with a nose would much rather die,

Stood over him gaping to take his breath in. So would Jack, so would Dan, so would you so
Were Tisdal the same way to blow out his breath, would I.

Such a whiff to the living were much worse than Without a reproach to the Doctor, I think,

death. Whenever he dies, he must die with a stink."

Page 49. Monroe's Raid

This account, with the further dispatch, is apparently unpublished, and was transcribed
by W. Pinkerton, probably from MSS. in T.C.D. Library.

Page 55. The Cessation

A number of letters referring to this event, copied in T.C.D. Library by W. Pinkerton,
were printed by Benn as Appendix VIL, History of Belfast. As to the destruction of corn
see p. 224 of present book.

Page 56. Monroe in Belfast

This extract gives a fair example of Pinkerton's more finished pieces of composition. He
would, doubtless, have embodied it without much change in his History of Belfast, Benn
availed himself of it largely. See his History of Belfast ^ p. 163, et seq.

Page 64. The Parliament and Belfast

This excerpt from the Pinkerton AfSS. throws some light on the position of parties at
Belfast in 1645. The Parliamentary party were bitterly opposed by the Scotch, and the
King, through the Marquis of Antrim, endeavoured to tamper with the allegiance of the
latter to the Covenant. The stranger called M*Donnel was doubtless his emissary. A
scarce tract in the Editor's possession, entitled, *' Murder Will Out ; or, the King's Letter
justifying the Marquess of Antrim, and declaring, That what he did in the /risA Rebellion was
by Direction from his Royal Father and Af other ^ and for the Service of the Crown : London
1689," bears out this statement. A curious remonstrance against declaring the Marquis an
"innocent," addressed to the King in 1663 from the Council in Dublin, is given at the end
of a contemporary MS. of Clarendon's History of the Irish Rebellion in the Editor's
possession.

Notes. 261

Page 65. Belfast Trade, &c., 1646-48

Pinkerton had made many notes relative to these and later periods taken from original
documents, but unfortunately in most cases without references. Benn has used them largely
in his notes on early trade, &c., in his History of Belfast, Some of Pinkerton's shorter notices
are subjoined : — ** John Gugston, merchant, Belfast, to export from Liverpool or Chester to
Belfast 12 bags hops, 2 packs broadcloth, 2 packs stuff, 2 packs of small ware, lo doz. of
hats, a bundle of bridle-reins, amounting to ;f 300. David Maxwell and John McDowel,
merchants of Newton, licensed to embark from Chester or Liverpool to Strangford, duty
free, 3 boxes of apothecary drugs, 12 bags of hops, % packs of Yorkshire cloth and friezes,
36 pieces of Norwich stuffs, trimming and furniture for clothes to the value of £^0^ 40 pair
of shoes, 3 doz. sword belts, 3 doz. of spurs, 3 doz. of hats; 20 Nov., 1647. James Hamil-
ton, of Bangor, from Liverpool to Strangford, Bangor, or Carrickfergus, 10 fardels cloth and
stuflfs, 4 trunks with furniture for the same, 3 doz. of hats for officers, 3 fardels of hardware.
Edward Davis, of Carrickfergus, from Liverpool, 15 trunks of broadcloths, stuffs, hollands,
trimmings, sword-belts, gloves, buff coats, shammoys, four boxes of hats, rapiers, swords,
3 packs of coarse linens and stockings." Some of the notes refer to military matters in the
vicinity of Belfast at the above dates, viz. — "Whereas Sir Jas. Montgomery did willingly
part with his quarters in Lecale at our desire for the accommodation of the British forces,
we have therefore thought fit and just that he have 20 bolls of meal paid monthly to him.
Meal given to prisoners escaped from the rebels, and to guides who assisted their escape —
Turlogh Low, the guide, 10 Bolls of meal ; 10 Bolls of meal for poor in town of Antrim.
By reason of men lying so many months in their clothes, they are worn very bare ; extreme
necessity for shoes, stockings, sheets. Care to be taken for provision of powder, ball, and
matches. No fuel in the country, and it wholly depopulated, and that a magazine of coals
be sent out of the sequestered estates in Lancashire and North Wales. The Committee to
send over pieces of eight at 5 shillings, so that victuals be better provided, and to encourage
the soldiers. A chirurgeon's chest is greatly needed."

Page 67. First Establishment of a Post

In 1672, lorevin de Rochford published at Paris his Travels in England and Ireland,
He passed through Belfast on his way to Scotland, and when at Carrickfergus writes : — " I
knew that the common passage for the post and packet-boat was six miles above this town,
at a little village called Larne, and that formerly this passage was to Arglas and to Denocadi,
villages below Belfast : but for security, and finding an opportunity of passing from Knoc-
fra^s, or Karrickfergus, into Scotland, I would wait for proper wind and weather to do it."
This extract is taken from the translation of Rochford's Travels in the Antiquarian
Repertory f 1 779, by kindness of Andrew Gibson, Esq.

Page 68. A Relation of several Services

This is mentioned by Benn as in the Pinkerton MSS,^ but was not printed in his
History of Belfast (v. p. 128). In the Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities
exhibited in the Museum, Belfast, at the meeting of British Association, 1852, there is the
following note : — *' From Rev. John H. Tellett, f.t.c.d.. Original Miniature of Oliver Crom-
well, presented by the Protector himself, together with a grant of land in the Co. Down, to
the widow and daughter of James Morgan, an officer of his personal staff, who fell beside
him at Drogheda."

Page 75. For the nameless superannuated Scotch Minister

Pinkerton notes that this was Patrick Adair, author of A True Narrative of the Presby-
terian Church in Ireland (i 623-1 670). Much generosity was shown at this time by the
Parliament to the North of Ireland. Pinkerton notes — ** To the poor in the town of
Antrim, being (as by Sir John Clot worthy's letter are certified) about 1,000 persons, for
whom the Lady Clotworthy doth desire that there be designed ;f 500. There are in Carrick-
fergus, Belfast, and other narts of Co. Down (by relation of Arthur Hill, Esq.), about 2,000
persons for these ;£'i,ooo. ;£'i2,ooo in all given.

Page 77. Letter from the Lord General Cromwell

This and the succeeding letter of Cromwell show the Protector in a favourable light.
Neither of them, it is believed, have been hitherto printed. Adair had property at Kinhilt,
\yigtonshire, and large estates at Ballymena, the latter still held by Sir Hugh Adair, a
lineal descendant. Strafford wrote in 1639 : — •* There is one Mr. Adaire, a man of some
four hundred pounds land, who went over into Scotland to rebel it there with the rest of that
faction, and hath played his part notably and insolently. This fellow I caused to be
indicted of treason." Cromwell did not approve of the transplanting scheme of 1653, as
Rev. Patrick Adair writes — " For Oliver, coming to the supreme ordering of affairs, used
other methods and took other measures than the rabble rump Parliament."

262 Old Belfast.

Page 78. The Scheme to Transplant the Scots

Reid, in his History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland^ gives some account of this
scheme (vol. ii. p. 177, Appendix V. ). Benn prints the first letter of the Commissioners only.
This is reprinted here, and the list of Scots to be transplanted is also given, as it differs in
several instances from the list given in Reid. The second list is not given by Keid. Pinker-
ton transcribed the correspondence manu sud from the original in Bermingham Tower,
Dublin, and attached much importance to it, as showing the animus which inspired the
Parliamentarians at that time against the Covenanters. A copy of the Covenant had been
signed at Holywood, Co. Down, in 1644 (see Town Book of Belfast^ p. 315). The list of
names of the Scots to be transplanted includes mainly Presbyterians, but also some Episco-
palians, such as Lord Montgomery, Lord Claneboy, &c. Space only is available for the
subjoined notes on several names by the Rev. W. T. Latimer, B.A. : —

Lieutenant James Lynsey (Antrim Quarters) was no doubt the same Lieutenant James
Lindsay sworn a ruling elder of Templepa trick in 1646.

Lieutenant Wallace is mentioned as follows in the old Session Book of Temple-
patrick Church : — '^ Sep. 7. 1647. It is delated that Lieutenant Wallace hath some Irishes
under him who comes not to church. The Session ordains William McCord to sp>eak to the
Lieutenant that either he will put them away from him or else cause them to keep the
church."

Page 88. Colonel Robert Venables

Pinkerton gave a short notice of him {Notes and Queries^ 3rd S. V. ). The Editor has a
copy of his Experienced Angler, It has an address prefixed by Izaak Walton, and is
adorned with some copperplates of fish. Venables writes of salmon in Ireland — *• I do not
know any River (I mean high in the country) that hath such plenty of them as the black-
water by Charlemontf and the broad-water by Shanes Castle, both which have their heads
in great bogs, and are of a dark muddy colour, and very few (comparatively) in the app>er
ban, though clearer and swifter than they."

In the Harleian MSS, there is a paper in his writing giving an account of his s;ervices
when commanding the Parliamentary army in Cheshire, 1643-46. He commanded the land
forces at capture of Jamaica in 1654. For failure to take Hispaniola, he and Admiral Penn
were committed to the Tower. The time and place of his death are unknown.

Page 105. From the Civil List

Gilbert Simpson was ordained minister of Ballyclare on 9th August, 1655. He was
ejected in 1661, but remained among the people.

Thomas Crawford ordained on 28th August, 1655, minister of Donegore.

Henry Livingstone ordained in 1655 minister of Drumbo. He was nephew of the
celebrated John Livingstone. He was ejected in 1661, and died in 1697, aged 66 years.

David Buttle ordained minister of^ Ballymena in 1645. He was imprisoned by the
Parliamentarians in 1650. Ejected in 1661, he continued to preach till his death in 1665..

Michael Bruce was grand-nephew of Michael Bruce wno crowned the queen of his
kinsman, James VI. of Scotland, and who was a lineal descendant of John de Bruce, uncle
of King Robert Bruce. Michael Bruce was ordained minister of Killinchy in 1657, and
ejected at the Restoration. He fled to Scotland, and was severely wounded in trying to
escape arrest. Through the influence of Lady Castlemaine, who heard him preach in
prison at London, his sentence was commuted to ** banishment to Killinchy in the w^oods."
He remained there till 1689, when he was again driven to Scotland, and died there in 1693.
His son James (b. 1661, d. 1730) was minister of Killyleagh. Michael Bruce, of Holywood
(1686-1735), and Patrick Bruce, of Drumbo and Killyleagh (1692-1732). grandfather of the
first baronet of Downhill, were sons of James. Samuel Bruce, of Dublin (1722— 1767)
a son of Michael Bruce, was the father of the famous Dr. Wm. Bruce, of Lisbum, Dublin*
and Belfast (1757-1841), whose son. Rev. Wm. Bruce, of Belfast (1790-1868), was the seventh
member of the family who had been a clergyman of the Irish Presbyterian Church. James
Bruce, Esq., D.L., proprietor of the Benburb estate, Co. Tyrone, is a grandson of Dr. Wm.
Bruce. He has in his possession some family papers containing letters from James VI, &c.*
relative to his ancestors.

Page 123. Daniel O'Neill

For some account of this remarkable man, son of Con O'Neill of Castlereagh , see an
account of D. O'Neill's escape from the Tower of London by the Editor ( Ulster jourtud of
Archaology, Sept. 1894). In Mcuculam AfSS, there is a curious eulogy of this family , with
pedigree, c, 1730. See also Reeves* Account of Crannoge of Inish Push {Proc, I^,/,A,
vol. vii.). * **

The Editor has been favoured with some interesting documents relative to the branch of
the O'Neills of Castlereagh settled in Lisbon, by Don George O'Neill, Peer of Portugal, &c^
His ancestor, Felix O'Neill, Bed with James II. to France, entered the Irish Brigade' and

Notes. 263

was killed at Malplaquet. His descendants in the male line now resident in Lisbon are —
(I) Joseph Charles O'Neill, b. i8i6, head of the family; (2) George Torlades O'Neill,
b. 181 7, Consul-General of Denmark. His son is George O'Neill, b. 1848; mar. Marie
Isabel Fernandez, and have issue, Hngues, George, and Marie Th6r6se. He resides at a
villa adjoining the Royal Palace, Cintra.

Page 127. Confirmation of the Chichester Patents

This document is in the handwriting of W. Pinkerton, and many others relating to the
Donegal! family are in the Pinkerton MSS. One of these, endorsed *' 1692, June 15. Copy
Deed between Ld. Longford, the co-heirs of Arthur late Earl of Donegal!, Arthur Earl of
Donegal!, and others," contains the names of the tenants holding several of the town lands,
as follows : —

" And as to all that the Castle, Mannor, and Town of Belfast, and the Demesne lands and
The parks thereunto l)elonging, and also the Lands of Tuogh Cinament, And the Cave, the
Town and Lands of Skegenearle, and the Quarter of Listillyard, then in the possession of
Wm. Warren ; the town And lands of Ballyoghegan, then in the Tenure of Joan Pegg, Widow ;
The old park and the new Enclosures adjoining, then in the Tenure of Edward Reyne!!,
Gill)ert Wye, Francis Thetford, John Clarke, and Others, by Lease from the said Earl; the
Town and I^nds of Ballysillan and Outerard, with the Mountains thereunto Belonging ; one
half of the Town land of Listillyard, and part of Ciough Castle, then the new Parle, the
other part of the Town and lands of Listillyard, and three parts of the town and lands of
Ciough castle, then in the possession of George Martin ; the two town lands of Drumnegrash,
and the said other Town land, both then lately In the possession of Michael Newby or nis
assigns ; the two Town Lands of Carentall, then or lately in the possession of William Penery
or his assigns, the two Town lands of Ballywinnett and Ballyvaston, then or lately in the
possession of George Russell And his Partner ; the two Town lands of Gleneward and Glan-
gormally, then or lately in the possession of Richard Cannon ; as also the Town Lands of
Ballyboght, then or then late in the Possession of Thomas O'Killen or his assigns ; as also
the Town of Ballymaduffand ; the half town of Ballyhenry, then or then lately in the posses-
sion of Doctor Alexander Colvill ; as also the Town lands of White Abby, then or then
lately in the possession of Thomas Quaile or his assigns ; as also the White house and town
lands of Rantollard, Jordanstown, Code, Dunany, Ballyvesin, Ballycraggy, Carofemey, and
the other half town land of Ballyhenry, and the Mill ihere upon, then lately in the possession
of John Davis, Esq^e., deceased ; as also the two Town lands of Monkstown and Ballyhone,
then or then lately in the possession of Mrs. Grace Le Squire or her assigns."

Macadam has a note on Citiament, He says this word, which occurs in old papers con-
cerning the N.E. of Ireland for a certain division of land, is probably a mistake for
linament^ as the letters c and / were much alike. Ducange gives Tinamenium, a district.
Spelman says a farm held by vassals of their lord is called Tinament. The modem form of
same word is tenement, Eugene O'Curry says Siniomon was an ancient Brehon law term for
the produce of land, such as wood and grass; from river or sea, as fish; all royalties ;
all things found and not claimed. He suggests this as derivation of Cinament,

Page 129. To AN OLD stone called Ballyrobart

Old stone seems to have been used as a term for an old building, as in the adjoined
extract from the finding of a jury in 1601. Records of Carrickfergus MS.: — ** And we fynde
that the landes lx)unded within the meares names and markes of there verdict dothe belonge
and hathe of a long tyme l)ene in the manurance and occupacion of the Inhabitants of the
corporacion of C.fergus more than what is exempted by them as belonging to the owld stone
called Goodborne, and the hospiiiall of Spittell. This is further called ** a Rewenated and
decayed abbaye called Goodborne."

Page 138. Descrii»tion of Ardes Barony

This is one of the accounts of localities in Ireland sent to Mr. William Molyneux, prin-
cipally by clergymen, in 1683, for publication in the Grand Atlas designed to be published
by Moses Pitt, a London bookseller. Unfortunately, Ireland was not reached, as, after four
volumes appeared, the scheme fell through. This description of the Ards was written by
William Montgomery, of Rosemount, so well known as the author of the Montgomery MSS,
It was printed in 16 pp. folio in 1683, and was so much appreciated that Sir William Petty
paid jC;^ 13s. 6d. for a copy. Montgomery wrote it out again in a slightly different form,
and sent a copy to his kinsman, Patrick Savage, of Portaferry, in 1701. He writes to him —
** This account of y* barrony was more gen"' written (long agoo) at y* desire of my kinsmen
(Wm. Molineux and G. Usher, Esqs.), who were collecting materialls to make an atlas or
description of Ireland ; you will see y« printed quires [queries?] which are concerning y* same
sent herewith to you, w*» I received from them byy« post." It appeared in Henry Joy*s
edition of the Montgomery MSS., printed at the News- Letter Office, 1830, of which the
Editor has the original as prepared by Joy for the press.

264 Old Belfast.

Page 143. Proclamation by the Duke of Schonberg

Pinkerton had collected much original matter on Schonberg*s campaign in Ireland,
which has afforded nearly all the material for Chapter X. Benn's History of Belfast,
Pinkerton notes that the Hearth-money of Co. Antrim was let to farm in the following
years :— 1682,;^ 1,620 ; 1683, ;f 1,662 ; 1684, ;f 1,712 ; 1685, jjf 1,737. Co. Down in the same
years was ;£ii365, ;f 1,408, ;^I458, ;f 1,481. The population of Ireland, taken firom the
assessment of the poll in 1696, was 1,034,162.

Page 146. Y^ K. landed at Carrickfergus

In the preceding year Schonberg had landed at Groomsport.Co. Down, in accordance with
a report presented by ** Anthony Wild, Belfast ; James Sheares, Donaghadee ; John Magee,
Ballyshannon ; and William Mercer, Limerick, masters of ships.** — Ptnktrion MSS, Tneir
report is given in Benn*s History of Belfast ^ p. 170. It is probable that the King's advisers
consulted Thomas Phillips' Report on the several garrisons of the Kingdom of Ireland, of
which several of the beautiful maps are in British Museum, including the view of Belfast, c.
1685. Benn gives the date of its execution as 1685, misled, no doubt, by Pinkerton's note-
book containing that date on the same pa^e as part of Phillips' report, but it belongs to a
note on another subject. As Pinkerton gives no reference to the place where the Report is
preserved, and the maps afford no date, the Editor has been unable to determine it. In the
Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities exhibited in the Museum, Belfust,
1852, the view is entitled, "Ancient Government Survey of Belfast in 1686." Pinkerton's
notes on Phillips are as follows: — "Phillips appointed by Lord Lieutenant to survey and
report on the several garrisons of the Kingdom of Ireland ; to report on their present
condition, and estimate the expenses necessary to put them and the policy {sic) in a state of
defence ; and he reports : —

'* Amongst all which I do find not above four or five that is capable of being fortified, so as to be made
to resist a considerable army, by reason that most of the inland towns were thought strong by beins encom-
passed with bogs and rivers, and as great passes, all of which I do find to be quite contrary, for the improve-
ment of the country hath drained the bogs, and more towns are daily building, making for the benefit of the
several counties bordering one upon another, so that it will be no end for his Majesty to be at the char^ to
secure all passes when that there is no stop or hinderance to be put to the improvement of a Country that is
and will be of so great a value to the Crown.^

" Carrickfergus as doth appear by its situation to have no command of the channel or river of Belial
which is now the Third place of Trade of this Kingdom, but it having an old strong Castle fit to receive his
Majesty's stores in at present. It hath been therefore mentioned to be a place the most fit to be repaired and
made a garrison. But I cannot say much to the usefulness of it when it is so fortified, for it is capable of
having vessels of anv considerable burden come up close to it ; besides, they lie dry at every tide, there being
a very large strand before the Castle, as appears in the draught. But above this place is one of the most con-
siderable places [Belfast] in the Kingdom, having never less than 40 or ^ sail of ships before it ; the place

.... , . . ^oy opinion

being upon the place. I cannot think his Majesty should be at any greater expense than to repair the C^astle
for the present, and put it into a posture for receiving the present garrison ordered for this place, and when-
ever that money can be spared, to let the most considerable work be done at Belfast. According to the survey
and estimate of the repairing of the Castle of Carrickfergus and the purchasing of some houses before the gate,
doth amount to ;^i4,703. The building a citadel at Belfast, ;C42,o54."

He was also inspector of ordnance, but did not find any at Belfast, but at Carrickfergus, as he reports
that there are one demi-cannon, two culverins, one twelve-pounder, three demi-culverins, two sakers, one
three-pDunder, fifteen falcons, five pateraroes, and three petards, all brass ordnance. Of iron ordnance covered
with brass at the same place he reports one falcon and five demi-culverins, while of iron ordnance there are
one eight-pounder, three saker-minions, and one sling-piece.

"Londonderry hath the appearance of a place of strength, it being capable of being made an island, but
when that is done it is with the hazard of destroying a most noble river, which is the nourishment of that city ;
besides, the hills overlook it so on all sides that there could be no rest there for the inhabitants whensoever an
enemy shall attempt it. The place at present is walled round, having several ^uns mounted, all of which are
at the charge of the several companies of London. His Majesty hath a magazine there, with a small quantity
of stores, as many as are fit to be trusted in a place of such indifferent force or strength."

Page 148. King William the Third, &c., at Belfast.

These unpublished extracts from Clarke's Correspondence are all in Pinkerton's hand-
writing, and seem to have been quite overlooked by Benn. The originals of the Prodama-
tions issued at Belfast and Hillsborough were kindly examined for the Editor by Rev. W.
Reynell, and are in manuscript. No printed copies have ever turned up, and the idea that
printing was executed in Belfast when the King was there is untenable. The Royal gloves
and stirrups, &c., illustrated (p. 144), were given by the King to General Hamilton, his
aide-de-camp, an ancestor of the Baroness Von Stieglitz, sister of the late Stewart Blacker,
D.L., Carrick blacker. At this fine old house, which is built of Dutch bricks in the '* Queen
Anne style," are preserved many valuable relics and pictures of the period, including an
Indenture of 1691 relative to the Corporation losses at Siege of Derry, with signatures of all
the leading citizens ; the original of Proclamation against Brass Money ; portraits of William
and Mary by Kneller, and of his generals, &c The bronze stirrups shown in the illustration
belonged to Charles I., as they have engraved on them C.R, witn a crown, and date 1626.
The Editor recently acquired from a London bookseller King William the Third's own copy of

Notes.

265

the Boek^ Common Profer: Oxford, 1693; folio. It is bound in old English black morocco,
wilh the Royal mom^iBTn and crown in gold on sides and back, and is in good preieivation.
Valuable matter relalive to Williaai's Hngucoot foUoweis is contained in ProUtlants fram
France in their Engliik Home, by S. W. Kershaw, F.S.A. : Sampson Low, 1S85.

V»%t 152. JOURNRY TO Y= NOHTH

The author of this oiiginal description was the brother of the patriotic William Moly-
neux, author of the Case af Ireland being bound iy Acts of ParlianiaU in fn^Aifi^ (Dublin,
1698), published to arrest the threatened destruction of the Irish woollen trade. Their bther
was Samuel Molyneux, Kfaster Gunner of Ireland, and son of Samuel Molyneux, Ulster
King-at-Arms, Thomas was bom in Dublin in 1661, became a graduate of Trinity College,
visited Lcyden and Paris, and was elected f.k.s. He was created a baronet, and died in 1733.
A paper on this toui was read by Mr. W. II. Patterson, m.r.i.a., on 17th January, 1S75,
beloie the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, and a few eitiacts from it were

William Wilde wrote a

1 Dublin University Magazine

Qja^ r^ )2/Jern£aaM-

Book.Platb op Easl op Dombcall, IJ39-99 (cHaATeo Makquii 1J91).

Page 155. Lord Donnegall's Family

J^rThe following document indicates the large establishment kept up at that time a

„ Biislow 50. — .

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.. 5.-.

i^fe-'^'"'""' ■■

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I<JinDuffin.th.Pa.k 3.-.

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Wineford, n

Kil^eon in
Mn. Violrll
MuKr Ailhiir'l

trfurd'i iMid
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Old Tar iSirk'y* henwit^

John Clark the Miller ..
Md Thil Mr, Gallry i> but /:

266

Old Belfast.

Page 156. Carrickfergus

The Corporation of this ancient town assumed more dignity than that of Bel^t, as the
following extract from the Records of Carrickfergus MS. shows : — " The Manner how war
was proclaimed against the King of Spain on Monday, the 5th of Nov'* 1 739 (it being agree-
able and according to the Antient Custom of the Corporation of Cfergus proclaiming War),
in the Mayoralty of Henry Gill, alderman.

'* The Mayor called an assembly of the Aldermen and Burgesses, as also caused all the
different Corporations or Trades to be warned ; and when the Aldermen, Burgesses. &c,
were assembled, the Mayor, attended by the Recorder, Sherriffs, Aldermen, Bui^esses, Sword
Bearer, Town Clerk, &c., all on horseback in their formalities, proceeded to the Castle Gate,
and there caused the Proclamation to be read by the Town Clerk ; after the Proclamation
was read, the Sword of Honour was drawn, each Gentleman in company drawing his sword ;
after this they went to the Tholsell, North Gate, and West Gate, where the Proclamation
was read. After each reading the People, who attended in great multitudes, gave three
Huzzas ; when the ceremony was ended, the Mayor invited the Gentlemen that attended on
the occasion to his house, where many loyal healths were drank, particularly success to his
Majesty's arms by Sea and Land, at which time the Great Guns at the Castle were fired.
N.B. — After the Sword of Honour was drawn, the Ma3ror carried it until the Ceremony was
ended, and before that carried the Rod of Mayoralty.**

Page 156. Herb thry carryed us up a pretty high Hill

This hill was the Cave Hill, on whose eastern slope stands Belfast Castle, the finely-
situated residence of the Countess of Shaftesbury. Her Ladyship, with her invariable con-
sideration for the people, has recently formed, at great cost, a new pathway to the cave and the
summit of the hill, which has already proved a source of innocent enjoyment to many. The
fountain mentioned was, no doubt, the spring known afterwards as the Volunteers* Well,
and resorted to on Easter Mondays long ago, when the townspeople flocked to the Cave Hill
in thousands.

John Kirkpatrick, m.d., in hU poem entitled the " Sea-Piece " (London, 1750), gives the following legend
of the cave in the Cave Hill ; —

*' Here, as Tradition's hoary legend tells,
A blinking piper once, with magic spells,
And strains beyond a vulgar bagpipe's sound.
Gathered the dancing Country^ wide around ;
When hither as he drew the tripping rear
(Dreadful to think, and difficult to swear !)
The gaping mountain yawned, from side to side,
A hideous cavern, darksome, deep, and wide ;
In skipped th' exulting da:mon piping loud,
With passive joy succeeded by the crowd ;

The winding cavern, trembling as he played.
With dreadful echoes rung throughout its shade ;
Then firm, and instant, closed the greedy womb.*
Where wide-born thousands met a common tomb.
Even now the good inhabitant relates.
With serious horror, their disastrous mtes ;
And, as the noted spot he ventures near.
His fancy, strung with tales, and shook by fear.
Sounds magic concerts in his tingling ear :
With superstitious awe, and solemn face.
Trembling he points, and thinks he points the place.**

Page 157. The Print of the Cawsey

This was the first view published of the Causeway. It is a folding copper-plate, well
engraved, and giving also details of some polygonal columns. The finest engravings are the

a vol

ballad

verses are subjoined : —

From Derry my brother and I lx)th set out
The Causeway to see we'd heard so much about.

At Newtown we stopt, and a dinner we had ;

If you've ever been there, you may swear it was bad.

To Coleraine we got safe in most dreadful bad weather,
For it rained as if heaven and earth came together.

We had not long sat till a Justice in came,

His name was McNaghten, and well known to fame.

No sketch of our supper I here need to eive ;
We had it at Cordner's, 'twas bad you'll believe.

And early next morning our Journey pursued.

And with wonder the giant's fam'd Causeway review'd.

&c., &c., &c.

Page 159. That this much talked of Siege

The annexed document in the Editor's possession would bear out this statement of
Molyneux : —

Whereas a Quantity of Salmon belonging to me, John Lord^ Visct. Massereene, was lying at Culmorc
Fort, and the same being seised and eaten by the Protestant army in and about London Derry at the time of
the Seige there, which being by His Maty* Commissioners of the Treasury, their Order of Reference, and
the Report of William Harburd, Esq., Vice-Treasurer, to whom the Value of the said Salmon was referred
computed at fifteen Pounds Per tun, as by the said Report bearing date the fifteenth day of Augt., 1689, n>*y
more fully appeare, I do hereby assigne and sett over all my Right and Demand from his Maty for the Said
Ssdmon So computed at fifteen Pounds Per tun to the Sume of nine hundred Pounds unto Mr. John Railey,
Treasurer to the Honble the Irish Society. As witness my hand and seale this two and twentieth Day c^
May, 1690. Massbrbbnb.

Notes.

267

rage 161. Island Magee Witches, 17 10

This extraordinary case was published by Joseph Smyth, Belfast, 1822. but without these
depositions. The trial took place at Car rick fergus, March 31, 171 1, before Judges Upton
and M*Cartney. and the prisoners were found guilty. A curious account of the trial, wntten
by Dr. W. Tisdall, Vicar of Belfast, who was present, is given in an appendix. He afHrms
that " these extraordinary facts, proved upon oath in the course of tne evidence, were all
preternatural ; not to be performed by the common course of second causes, nor soluble by
any human reason." Pinkerton found amongst T. Crofton Croker's papers in British Museum
the following ballad and note, evidently sent by Samuel M'Skimin, the historian of Carrick-
fergus, relative to a later case of witchcraft at Carnmoney, concerning which Mr. W. F.
M 'Kinney, Carnmoney, has collected curious notes, including another version of this
ballad, in which Butters is given as the witch's name.

THE CARNMONEY WITCHES, 1807.
From Miscellaneous Anglo-Irish Poems collected by T. Crofton Croker, fol. 63, Addl. MS. B.M., 30,096.

In C&rrick town a wife did dwell,^
That did pretend to conquer Witches ;

Auid Barbara Cools, or Lucky Bell,
Need not lang to come through her clutches.

A woeful trick this wife did play

On simple Sawny, our poor taylor ;
But she's mittimus d the other day.

To lie in limbo with the jailor.

Simple Sawny had a Cow,

She was as sleek as any other ;
But it happened for a month or two.

When that they chum'd they got no butter.

With Koun-tree tied in the cow's tail,
And Vervain gleaned about the ditches.

But a these did nought avail,
Tho' They blest the Cow, and cursed the Witches.

The neighbour wives were gathered in.

In number near about a dozen ;
They were Kate M'Cart, an Mary Linn,

An Elspie Doe, the taylor 's cou&in.

Ay they chum'd. and churn'd away,
Their aprons pinfied, and cast their mutchts ;

Bnt still there was no butter came,
And then they sent for Mary Butlers.

Mary Butlers when she came.
She strait sat down by the fire.

And the Taylor was sent to stand all night
With his waistcoat turned in the byre.

Then the chimney it was stopt,

And every crevice where it smoaked ;

But long before the break of day.
The gutd folk in the house was choacked.

Had Sawny summonced all his wits.
And sent away for Hughv Mm^tin*

He would have galled the Witches' guts,
He cured the Tcye for Nanny Barton.

But the taylor lost his^ son and wife.
For Mary Butlere did them smother ;

But as he hates a single life,
In four weeks' time he got another.

If Mar^' Butlers be a Witch,

It's nght the people all should know it,
For if she can the Muses touch,

I'm sure she soon will destroy the Poet.

But I think she is no Witch —
She is only but a mere pretender ;

She has ne art to raise the i*eU
Like the auld wife, the Witch o' Endor.

* A celebrated curer of cows that are bewitched.

Note. — In the latter end of July, 1807, a cow of an Alexander Montgomery, tailor, parish of Carnmoney,
though she continued to give milk as usual, there was no butter on her milk when churned ; in consequence
she was supposed to be bewitched ! Various spells and schemes were tried to discover the witch ; but these
failing, it was agreed to send for Mary Butlers, Carrickfergus. to " cast her cantrips and gie them advice."
Her nrst operation was churning some of the cow's milk^ wnich, as usual, produced no butter, and some
persons who afterwards drank of the milk were seized with sickness and a violent vomiting. Mary Butlers then
informed the family that after nightfall she would try another spell, which could not fail ; and about ten o'clock
she gave orders to old Montgomery and a young man named Camaghan to go into the cow-house and to turn
their -waistcoats inside out y and in that dress 10 stand by the head of the cow until sent for by her, while
Montgomery's wife, his son, and an old woman remained in the house with the sorceress. She then caused
the out door to be closed, the chimney to be stopped, and every crevice that could admit air to be carefully
stopped UD ; what other measures she used has been but partially ascertained.

Old Montgomery and the person sent to the cow-house remained there until daylight, when^ becoming
alarmed, they knocked at the door, but receiving no answer, they looked through the kitchen window, and
beheld the four persons within stretched out on the floor as if dead. They immediately broke open the door,
when they found the mother and son dead, and the sorceress and the other woman nearly so. Tne latter soon
after expired ; and Mary Butlers, being thrown out on a dunghill, where she received some hearty kicks, soon
after recovered, and was sent to prison.

The house had a strong sulphureous smell, and on the fire was a large pot in which were some milk,
needles, pins, and crooked nails.

Mary Butlers was ao^uitted at the assizes. She still lives in this parish, and occasionally is called upon
to cure cattle that are beu'itchid!

She says the three persons in Carnmoney were killed by a Black man with a huge club^ who also knocked
over herself.

N.B. — Such was the origin of the annexed homely ditty. S. M'S[kimin].

Addressed to "T. Crofton Croker, Esq., Admiralty, London."

Page 165. Robert Greene

For some other extracts from his letters in the Exiitor*s possession, see Town Book of
Belfast^ p. 329. He had a lease of lands at Skegonearle (as he spells it in his receipts book)
which expired in 1753, as the following document in Pinkerton MSS. shows : — "Xbr 8th»

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Old Belfast.

1753* John Gordon beggs leave to Represent to Ld. Donegall's Trustees that at November
^st, 1753, the (following Leases of Lands and Tenements Expired : —

Harrison's Leases, now Vail Jones, Esq., a Townlands and many houses in town.
Thetford's, now Dobbins andjunis, Townparks and many booses in town.
Thetford'st now Wm. Holmes, Townparks and some booses in ye End of ye town.
Hamilton, for tbe Lands of L^oneill and some Tenements in tbe Town.
Geo. Macartney, Two Tenements in Town and three Acres Town parks.
Edmond Ellis, for the town land of Cloogh Castle.
Mr. Reynolds, for the town Land of Bellynamoney.
Charles Crymble, for tbe Lands of Camtall and Belly Earl.
Woods, now John Charlye, 33 acres of Bellyflfeniegby.

iohn M*Cance, for ffarm Lands in Dunmurry.
Lobt. Byrt, now Wm. Byrt, 3 leases of a great many houses in town.
Fusty (xtcX now Cha: Young, A tenement in town.
Chads, now Mr. Rainey, a Tenement in town.

Bigger, now Mussenden^ Bigger, and Burgess, a Tenement and Some parks.
Green, the Townland of Bellyaghigan, and x/8 part of Listilliard.
Nath: Wilson, for tbe Lodge and a part of tbe old Park,
ffletcher, now Dawson, Two leases of Lands, part of them town parks.
Gumer, now Lewis, a leases — one of Bellygarry, one a tenement and 28 acres land.
Mankins, now Banks and Rainey 's, iSl acres town parks, and having Tenements in Town.
Letitia Smith, now James M 'Alexander, a Tenement in North street.
Carr, now Lyons, a leases, with part of the Old Park.

And he further Represents that he has been for Severall months past, and will be for Some
months yet to come, constantly Imployed ia treating and settling with the people who live
on these lands and Tenements, and at present he has aggreed with a great number of them
for one year ; and if the Trustees have no Objection to the Rent Aggreed upon, they are to
continue and get out leases. That in a few months he will be able to show what Advance
rent will arise from Each of these leases, distinctly and Seperately the one from the other ;
and that the greatest part of the Tennants on Said Lands and Tenements have their pro-
posals for their respective holdings upon promise he has made them of being accepted on as
my Lord's Tennants on reasonable Terms, and taken from under the oppression of Petty
Landlords."

Page 166. To OUR Church

This was the old Corporation Church in High Street, where St. George's now stands.
In the adjacent burying-ground were interred almost all the prominent Belfast fiamilies down
to 1800, when the Borough Act of that year provided the following clause: — '• No Dead
Bodies shall be buried in old Church Yard. 5/. Penalty for digging a Grave therein, and
20/. for ordering it.'' It also says — '* And whereas the Water from the Sea occasionally
overflows the said Yard, and the burying of dead Bodies therein by the Reason and Means
aforesaid is become a public Nuisance, for Remedy whereof the late Marquis of Donegal
granted a Piece of Ground above the Poor- House and Infirmary of said Town, bat notwith-
standing, several dead Bodies are from Time to Time buried and interred in the old burying-
Ground, be it Enacted," &c., «/ supra.

Anion^t the numerous monuments which adorned the old churchyard, that of the
Collier family was conspicuous. The drawing from which the illustration is reduced is in
pen and ink, an unusual medium for A. Nicholl. Its interest lies in the £&ct that it is per-
naps the only representation preserved of a relic of the Corporation Churchyard, where so
many were " interred in a private, genteel manner," as the old Neivs-Letters expressed it.

Page 167. Mr. Mussbnden, one of our considerable traders

He was leading partner in the firm of Mussenden, Bateson & Co., whose offices were in
Winecellar Court. A page from their ledger (in Macadam MSS,) is given below. It shows
that the old Belfast men appreciated a variety of wines, like Lord Castlereagh (see Ulster
in *g8, p. 92).

Belfast, March 20^ /Jidly. 35^

Posted ..

TOO

Posted ..

Reed. . .

Posted ..

Sold and delivered Thos. Shortrigs, of Portoudown, 68^ galls

brandy at 4/9 p. . .
1 Empty hhd . .

permit 6

Sold and deliver'd James Dixon in town 3 bottles claret . .

Sold a quart Tent

Reed from Widdow Woods p. Alex. Ure
abated a hh<l . .

5
4

«5

Notes.

269

Posted ..

III

Sold and deliver'd Francis Atchison in town p. alexr McKinny,
a gallons Rum

Sold and deliver'd John Hall, Cooper in town, p. alexr McKinny,
la Benecarlo Butts

Sold and deliver d Samuel Groves, of Dawson's Bridge, p.
30 gallons Claret
15 gallons white wine

6 gallons Rhenish wine

3 gallons Canary

6 eallons Shiny @
ax doz. and 3 bottles

Page 169. Extracts from Letiers of Mrs. M'Tier

These have been kindly copied from the original letters by Mrs. Adam Duf&n, her
grand-niece. The portrait (page 173) was photographed with difficulty by Mr. Swanston
from the original sketch in oils painted at Edinburgh when Drennan was a student. Mrs.
M'Tier died in 1837, aged 95, having survived her famous brother 17 years. A letter to her
husband, by T. W. Tone, is given in Ulster in ^g8.

Page 170. BUT M'Cabe

Thomas M*Cabe was a watchmaker in North Street. He erected the first cotton mill
in Ireland, with Henry Joy and Capt. J. M*Cracken as partners. When asked to sign the
contract with other Belfast merchants for embarking in the slave trade, he used these
remarkable words — ** May God wither the hand and consign the name to eternal infamy of
the man who will sign that document." The scheme therefore fell through.

Page 175. Her Father, John M*Cracken

A few papers relative to him are amongst the AP Crockett AfSS, Some extracts are
subjoined. The first is a business letter from George Black, of Stranmillis, his employer at
the time, and a Belfast shipowner. His father, John Black, grandfather of the famous Dr.
John Black, the chemist, married Jane Eccles, whose father entertained William III., when
on his march from Belfast to Hillsborough, at Orangefield, now Cranmore. The Editor
recently presented to the University Library, Edinburgh, Dr. John Black's own copy of his
treatise on Linen Bleaching, corrected for a second edition, which was picked up in
Smithfield. An interesting pedigree of the families of Black, Eccles, Legge, Jones, and
Clarke, the latter lineal descendants of Bishop Jeremy Taylor on the female side, has been
dniwn up by Henry Wray Clarke, Esq. , M. a.

LETTER FROM GEORGE BLACK TO CAPTAIN JOHN M'CRACKEN.

Belfast, jd May, /76J.
Dkak Jack, — I suppose last week's very bad weather has retarded Mr. Oakall's launching the two
Vessells. so that you have got little or nothing done yet, excepting the draft and moulds, which, no doubt, are
finished by Mr. Sutton ere this ; and who knows but that the bad weather mizht induce him to make the
small model we spoke of, as he could do no work without doors. Tom Black will tell you what great matters
we have been doing here, haveing, on a quarter of an Hour's deliberation, bought a ship of aoo Tons and
freighted one of 70. This was on receiving an order from London for the transporting the french prisoners
here and at Castle Dawson, in number abt 420, to (ranee, and finding M. Aula was not lyke to appear, we
freighted Bob Moore to j^o to Bordeaux in his place, and he is to carry about 90 or xoo pris". The ship we
bought of Ts Greg, and u the Prince of Wales , from Boston^ Capt. Trail, which you saw. She cost us above
one thousand Britt: but this is her first Voyage, tho' but indiffly found. She is a coarse, stout, full-built
carrier. Capt. Eager goes in her to Bourdeaux, when she may be sold perhaps.

LETTER FROM FRANCIS JOY, HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, TO CAPT. JOHN M'CRACKEN.

(Written on paper with his own watermark of F. Joy.)

Teehoge, 26 May^ 1760.
Son M'Cracken,— I congratulate you on your safe arrival. It gave me much ease and pleasure after
my reading a ParagraflT in the News Paper of Scv' Ships from the West Indies being taken by tne French on
the coast of this Kingdom, finding the account of your arrival inserted.

Such good Providences demand our reasonable and religious Acknowledgments.

I am. with affectionate Compliments to your kind and good Mother, my Daugr. yr Wife and Child,
yr affecc father, Frans Joy.

PARCHMENT DEED RELATIVE TO A PEW IN ROSE.MARV STREET PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH (Third Co.ngrkgation).

This Indenture, made the twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven
hundred and sixty-three, Between John Clark, of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, of the One part, and
John M'Cracken, of Belfast aforesaid, Mariner, of the other Part, Witnesseth That the said Tohn Clark, for
and in Consideration of the Sum of Eleven Pounds Sterling to him in hand paid by the said Jonn M'CracKen,
the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledjged, Hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released, and confirmed,
and by these Presents Doth grant, bargam, sell, alien, release^ and confirm unto the said Tohn M'Cracken in
his actual possession now being : All that the Seat or Pue in the Third or new-erected Meeting«Hoase of
Protestant Dissenters in the Town of Belfast aforesaid, Number (i) below Stairs, with the Appurtenances
hereunto belonging, To Have and to Hold the same unto the said John M'Cracken, his Heirs and assigns
for ever. And the said John Clark the said Seat or Pue, onto him the said John M'Cracken, his Heirs and
assigns, against him the said John Clark, his Heirs and assigns, and all every other person and persons what-

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Old Belfast.

soever, shall and will warrant aad for ever defend by the Presents. In Witness whereof the said Parties have
hereunto interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the day and year first above written.

Signed, sealed, and delivered
in the presence of

Bbr: Tkbtford.

John M'Crackbn.

SeaL

Received from the above-named John M'Cracken eleven Poonds
sterling in full of the Consideration Money above-mentioned,
the day and year first above written.

Witnesses present : John CuiKic.

Bkr: Thbtford.

Witnesses present : I approve of th« above.

Mat Garnet. Jans Ct.ARic.

Page 177. The business of Muslin Manufacturers

It would appear that Mrs. M'Cracken was engaged in this business as early as 1779. as
the following letter (in M'Cracken AfSS. ) in her lumdwriting shows. It is endorsed, *' To
Mr. Thomas M'Cabe, for Mr. M'Cracken, Dublin":—

Belfast^ if my /, rj&K

Dbar Sir, — I send you the Inclosed Affidavit to make of it what use yon may think pr(^>er, either with
the Dublin Society or others. ,The Deponent cou'd have declared much more if our Delicacy bad not m«-
vented. Such as that Mr. Twig£, his Sister-in-Law, and Wife, at several times after he had^ wove th« third
piece of Muslin for me, temptedhim to quit my Employ to weave a piece for them by promising him IX>uble
Wages and a Premium from Parliament. And this he is ready to, if there be occasion. Sir, Your Hble. Servt.

I forgot that they Seduced hb Journeyman, who gave them Instructions and prepared the w(»1c, which
knowledge he acquired by Insight from Bumside. Ann M'Crackkn.

[Copy of Affidavit.]

County of Antrim, ) This day came before^ me, one of his Majesty's Justices of Peace for said County, Thomas
to wit. ) Bumside, of Belfast, in said County, Cambric and Muslin Weaver, who nuide oath that,

being employed as a Weaver by John McCracken, of Belfast, aforesaid, he wove and, about the lodk Day of
January, 1779, Nine, finished a piece of fine Muslin, measuring nine yards, value four shillings and roar
pence per )naud. That he hath since that time to the present wove for the said John M'Cracken two yards of
the same — part of which of a finer and part of a coarser Texture than the fprmer.

That he verily believeth that the Piece first mentioned was the first of the kind ever woven in the said
Town of Belfast or its vicinage.

Sworn before me at Belfast this ist Day of May, 1780, Eighty.
Thos. Bumude. Stkwakt Banks.

Page 177. The Hearts of Stekl

The following extracts relative to this organisation are copied from the AtSkimin MSS,
Benn's account of the taking of David Douglas from the Bei£iist Barracks was taken from the
above, but it is here printed literatim : —

" A general spirit of discontent and tendency to insunection had manifested itself for some time before, ex-
cited by the stagnation of commerce and manufactures ; and an idea had prevailed that the g;eneral rise of
rents, which had recently taken place on Lord Don^all's estate, would reduce the tenantry to beggary. Thb
opinion proved totally unfounded, as shortly after it appeared that the estate in question wa^ let on fair
terms, and that there was hardly a farm that, at the new rent and fine, would not sell a profit to the lessee.
. . . Meetings began to be held about the country, and some excesses were committed. The first act of
violence was entering the gardens of Clotworthy Upton, Templepatrick, and throwing down some omaniental
statues in it. Tlie first house burnt by them was that of John Bill, Ballymartin, on the night of a3rd Julv,
1769. On the night of Dec. 5th, same year, they also burnt the house of Andrew Mcllwaine|^ of sjune parish.

On the " " " " " " " "

James

Magee, and in March seven head of cattle, the property of

maimed. About the same time the farmhouse of Craigs, Ballyclare, was burnt. On 17th Au^st twenty-
three head of cattle, the property of Thomas Gregg, Belfast, were houghed on the lands of^Lisnalinchy, parish

lay a certain sum at a particular place by such a time. The sums thus ordered were usually complied with,
and the arrival of the Hearts 0/ Steel at the place where the money vras to be deposited was announced by a
discharge of small arms. By these means the well-disposed persons in the community were for some time com-
pletely overawed, and the cml powers being weak, and the country without any military force, save a few in
Belfast, the system spread rapidly over the entire county and into Co. Down. . . .

" 1770. Friday, December 21st. David Douglas, farmer, Templepatrick, reputed to be a leader, and
chargea with aiding and assbling in houghing Mr. Gregg's cattle, was taken prisoner in Belfast by Waddel
Cunningham, and for security lodged in the Barrack, where there was about fortv soldiers ; a rescue beine
apprehended if he had been sent direct to orison. The capture of this person excited no litde commotion, and
it was immediately determined to effect his liberation. On the morning of the 23rd an assembly of persons,
avowedly Hearts 0/ Steely met at Templepatrick for this purpose, and proceeded to the Dissenting Meeting-
House there and warned the people out, many of whom obeyed their summons, and assisted to gather others
at different meeting-houses, and proceeded towards Belfast, armed with guns, pistols, swords, scythes, pitdv
forks, &c. The grand randevouse {sic) was held at a house on the shore called the Stag's Head, when their
number amounted to about 1,200 men, chiefly from Templepatrick, Doagh, Ballyclare, and Cammon^
they were formed into regular order by an old soldier called Nathaniel Mathes, or Mathews, who aft
gave them the slip on their entering Belfast. In their march from hence, in front was a man named Giird|f
Crawford, on horseback, carrying before him several Iron crows rolled up in hay ropes, for the purpoM of
forcing open gates or doors.^ On their approach to the town, Stewart Banks, Sovereign, and aboiat ~
other gentlemen, took refuge in the Barrack and closed the gate. On their arrival in Belfast, they sarrowi '
the Barrack, and sent in a written message demanding the release of Douglass, their prisoner. Stewart Ba
Sovereign, gave a direct refusal, on which the mob fired many shots at the Barrack gate and over the «
but fiuling of the desired effect, a party of them flew to the house of Waddel Cunningham, broke it

•*3

Notes. 271

were in the act of destroying the furniture, when Dr. Halliday, an eminent ph)i^ician of Belfast, actuated by
compassion, and dreadmg lest the town might be destroyed, mingled with the crowd assembled at
Mr. Cunningham's house. After ex^tulatiog with them m vain,- he was taken prisoner by them, and
sworn that he would immediately repair to the Barracks and procure the release of the prisoners, or failing in
having it effected, he would return and surrender himself an hostage.^ The Doctor had just reached the
Barrack on this embassy, pressing through an immense multitude, consisting of the people from the country
intermixed with those of the town, when the gate was thrown open by the military, who fired upon the mob,
and killed five persons and wounded nine others. Amongst those killed were Wm. Russel, Cammoney ;
Andrew Crlsty, Dunagore ; and J. Sloan, Falls. By the Doctor's humane intercession further firing was pre-
vented. In the meantime, the party who were destroying the house of Mr. Cunningham ^a Wiluam Adair
broke Mr. Cunningham's clock), growing impatient at the Doctor's delay, and conceivmg that he had
deceived them, set the house on nre, whereby the safety of the town was in the utmost danger. Under the
same deception they threatened to destroy Dr. Halliday's house, and fired some shots into Mr. Gregg's, the
'" "" — '--t-- T. .1 — 1-_. — .: r .1 : T deemed expedient to give up the

the morning, on which the insur-

. and the Government offered large
rewards for the apprehension of the leaders of these outrages, viz. :— Tames Barber, Doagh ; Paul Douglass
and John Douglass, Ballymartin ; Hugh Love and Sufford Love, Balfyclare ; Samuel Douglass, Ballyheart-
field ; John Patten, Ballypallady ; Thomas Dickey, Templepatrick ; John Richey, Parl^ate ; and Andrew
Shaw, Cammoney. Rewards were also offered for Hugh Wilson, Ballyclare; Robert Cunningham (a/sas
Captain Firebrand), of the same place ; Nat Mathews, and James Gillespie. A fresh series of outrages took
place in 1771. In April, 177a, many persons were tried for acts done as Hearts 0/ SUely and George
MacKeown, John Campbell, John Clark, and James M'Neilly were executed on 9th May. Hugh
Mcllpatrick, John Blair, Thomas Stewart, and Thomas West were found guilty, and executra on i6th
August. On loth Sept., John Blair, a leader of the^ Hearts 0/ Steel ^ was executed, and a few transported.

At the Down Assizes, Hugh Jamison and Clenigan were convicted as Hearts of Steely and executed.

The county remained in confusion from the numerous military searches, and numbers fled to America, where
they settled, and were afterwards conspicuous in the Revolutionary War for their rancorous hostility to the
English Government. On Christmas night, 177^, inflammatory papers were put up on Cullybackey Meeting-
house, exciting the people to acts of violence and rebellion."

In the Pinkerton Collection is a poem called ** The Weaver's Lamentation ; or, a Farewell to Ireland."
It was everywhere sung as a common ballad, to the tune of *' Lochaber," at the time. A verse runs as
follows : —

'* Since things, when at worst, if they alter must mend.

We may hope that our miseries will soon have an end ;

For, whate'er may betide me, wherever I go.

Greater ills than the present I hardly can Icnow.

Then weep not, my darlings ! O dry up those tears.

And, trusting in Providence, banish your fears !

America's sons, both industrious and free^

Will welcome an honest, good workman like me."

Ships advertised in

Belfast News-Letter to sail from Belfast with passengers for America

in 1 773 •.—

Time.

Ship's Name.

Tons.

Bound for —

Jan. 15
Feb. 5

Friendship

300

Philadelphia.

Agnes

200

Charlestown.

*• 9

Peggy

300

Philadelphia.
St. John\ Island.

April 30

Y award

350

June iz

Two Brothers

300

Baltimore.

July 6

New Bett^ Gregg

300

Philadelphia.

Friendship

300

ditto.

„ 20

Lord Bangor

300

Wilmington.

• > 27

Charmiug Molly

350

Baltimore.

Aug. 6

Liberty and Property

250

Charlestown.

„ 20

Betty

200

Philadelphia.

i> 31

Catherine

300

ditto.

Waddell

450

Charlestown.

13 Ships, 3,400 Tons.

There also sailed from Newry, 8 Ships, 3,S5o Tons. From Londonderry, 14 Ships, 4,050 Tons. From
Lame, James and Mary, 350 Tons, for Charlestown ; Lord Dunluce, 400 Tons, for do.

The following unique relic is now first printed : —

COPY OF A THREATENING LETTER SENT BY THE " HEARTS OF STEEL."

Endorsed —

madam bready, of greainge,
by thee True harts of steel X

Castle Town office, March t2th, in the yr of 1772.

Madam, — I command you To set your Land To the old Tenens which now Ls in it at a resonable rent.
To be sure, we harts of steel knows that you are a Lonly woman, and dis not Ceair for horting you, for we will
alow you a proaper rent for it, which I think 6s. 6d. a aker is sefisent for it, and a zis. 4^. for Each Leas, and
we alow your Tenands To be obligen to you, and you most Take Ceair To anser our requist in seting your
Land, or if you do not, you may Expect bad Treitment from us soon, and that is what we do not Disier, if
posable we could shun it. S(o) be cure To Take our advise at the furst, and we will be your friend and bomble
Sarvants. C see justice and C fierbrand.

God save King georg the third

and his subjects the True harts of steel.

2/2

Old Belfast.

Page 177. Sous ok Lo&d Dokegall's leases

A Mtitfactoi^ explanation of ibeie leasn is given by Benn {Hiilory ef Belfast, p. 613).
Belbsl owed muni}' lo the wise benevolence of this unjustly maligned noblemaD its lapid
prtwress in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He buill, at his own cost, the Exchange
uuT the Parish Church, gave (he sue and contributed laigely to the Old Pooihounc, greatly
assisted the erection of the White Linen Hall, built the Brown Linen Hall, and was the
chief promoter of the Lagan Canal. A notice of his coming lo Belfast in 178S contains the
following lines — " His Lordship has the latisbction to lind thai the town of which he is the
salt proprietor has, within these fifteen yean, increased in population, commerce, and manu-
factures in ns rapid a manner, proportionabiy 10 its size, as any city or town in ihe Uiree
kiogdoma. Within this short space its port duties have experienced an augmentation of
from ^60,000 to about j£iiz,ooo annually. From being extremely defective in public
edifices, it has, of new erections, an elegant church, an exchange, a pooihouse, a dissecting
meeting-house, a while linen hall, and a bank ; in manufactures its improvemeni has kept
pace, particularly in those of cotton." The population was reckoned at i7,cxxi. He v-as a
patron of letters and the Fine Arts, and formed a notable library of beautiful ly-biund books,
some of which are to be met with occasionally. Two finely-carved and gilt console taUes
formerly in his possession are now al Rathvarna. His book-plate is figured on p. 265, from an
example kindly given the Editor by the well-known colleclot, Robert Day, P^sq., f.s.A-, j.p.

owners will form

of local /j:_/<M>^ annexed (from the Editor's collection) Ulustrate
ry Society and the earliest private book-plale,
t or^n. The subject of Bcl&st book-plates and theit
1 Kx-iioii 01 a volume on Irish Book-PIates by John Vinycotnb, Esq
I leading authority on (bis fascinating branch of art history. '

Page 180. On the Anniversary of the taking o
This commemoration of the French Revolution wa

Editor is indebted to James Johnston, Esq., Seaview, fe. ,. „ „

Belfast lady, Ai^usl 3rd, 1791, which contains the following reference to tbjs emit :

Bastille

on I4lh July. IJ91. Tlw
copy of ■ letter wntten Iiy r

Notes.

273

And so my friend did not wish to come to the Review ; neither did I, and yet I went. We had a very
agreeable day ; indeed, the Review was over by three O'clock. When the Volunteers came into Town they
were join'd by the Gentlemen of the Town and Neighbourhood, with the emblematick Paintings and Flags.
They then March 'd thro' Principal Streets ; their march terminated in Linenhall Street, where tne Volunteers
fired 3 grand ^M de Joys. They then went into the Hall, as many as it would hold, and made their declara-
tion, held their debates, and settled the Aflfairs of the Nation ; it was eight o'clock before they got to their
Dinners. There were a number of Publick Dinners thro' the Town, but the Grandest was the Celebration
Bam^uet at the Donnesall Arms ; there they had all the grand Toasts, Celebrated Songs, &c., and paid half-
a*Gutnea each man. There were a number of Dublin Gentlemen here ; among the rest was the celebrated
James Napper Tandy that, I suppose, you have often heard of. I suppose there never was such a Number of
People in Belfast at once ; the Grand Review was nothing to it. . . . And so you must have an account
of the Harpers too. I was hearing them one day ; I like them very much. The Harp is an agreeable soft
musick, very like the notes of a Harpsichord ; would be very Pleasant in a small room. There were ei^ht
men and one woman, all either Blind or Lame, and all old but two men. Figure to yourself this group, in-
differently dress'd, sitting on a Stage erected for them in one end of the Exchange Ball Room, and the Ladies
and Gentlemen of the first fashion in Belfast and its Vicinity looking on and listening attentively, and you
will have an Idea of how they look'd. You can't imagine anything sweeter than the Musick ; every one
play'd separately. The money that was drawn during the four days that they were here was divided among
them according to their merit. The best Performer got ten Guineas and the worst two, and the rest accord-
ingly. Now, how do you like the poor old Harpers ?

Mr. Felix B. Simms, grandson of Robert Simms, who was one of the leading Volunteers

at this celebration, has the originals of the following accounts relative to timber for the

representation of the Bastille, which was put up in the Exchange : —

1791. Mr. Robert Simms to Wm. Wilson, Dr.
July 12 — To 4 Lars Sqrs. for the Frame of the

Bastne 28

To 8 pleates for Do. . . 28

To z Hook and Ey for the Poale . . 10
To 4 Hooks for Holding it in the

Excheang 08

;6o 7 o
These Articles were provided by Mr. Wilson for the
-Celebration of the 14th July, 1791. Samuel Neilson.
Reed, the above. Wm. Wilson.

An Count of work and Timber for the Bastile.

To 2 once Cut Dales, at is. 3d. pr. pice . .
To 14 feet of Plank, at 4|d. pr. foot

To Sawyr's Bill

To making the same

Reccd. the above in full.

£ s. d.
026

053
009
o II 4i

o 19 10^

Robert M'Mullan.

Page 183. The French were in Carrickfergus

This was at the time Thur )t captured the town in 1760, of which a full account is given
in M'Skimin's History of Carrickfergus. The following old ballad on the event is believed
to be unpublished : —

Three gallant ships of War
Came anchored in our bay,
Hotsed up English colour and landed at Kilroot,
And marched up to Carrickfergus without further
dispute.

-Colonel Jennings being there at the very same space,
His heart it was a>breaking for this beautiful place.
He could not defend it ; for want of powder and ball,
Aloud unto his enemy for quarter he did call.

As Thourot lay in Hammock he dreamed a dream ;
A voice came unto him and named him by name,
Saying, Thourot, you are to blame for lying so long

here, _
The English they will be in this night, the wind it

does blow fair.

Thourot jumped out of hammock, and called on his

men,
Weigh your anchors, brave boys, make all the haste

you can,
We'l go in the night-time, and make all the haste

we can,
We'l steer soon and consort towards the Isle of Man.

As daylight did appear, Elliott spied Monsieur,

Which gave to him great cheer.

And to his men did say,

Yonder's Thourot, boys, we'l show him some play.

Thourot from the deck to the cabin ran down ;
Then he got his spy-glass and viewed them all round.
When he saw the English preparing themselves in

swarm,
Oh, my boys, says Thourot, this place will be too

warm.

We'l lose our gallant names, and they'l have it for

to sajr
The bonnie ship, Belisle^ was took by English play.
Come, hoist your hooks (f /V), we'l take them without

doubt.
The first that came up was Elliott, without doubt.

Up came one of Elliott's ships, saying, pray, be not

so fast.
Give her a galeant broadside, cut off her mizen mast.
Up came the other two, gave her fire round ;
Oh, my boys, says Elliott, this b not in Carrick town.

Up came Monsieur Thourot with his visage pale and

wan :
Strike your colours, brave boys, they'l sink us every

one;
Their weighty shot comes on so hard from sea.
Won't you strike your colours, boys, they'l sink us in

the sea.

Before they got their colours struck great slaughter

there was made ;
Many a galeant Frenchman on Thourot's decks lay

dead.
They came tumbling down in swarms, and on

Thourot's decks they lay,
While our brave English heroes cut their booms and

yards away.

And as for Monsieur Thourot, as I hear the people say,
He was carried off by Elliott's men and buried to
Ramsey Bay.

Here's a health to Elliott's men, and Thourot's men

likewise
May all that does invade us be served that same way.
The Irish beat them off by land, the Englishmen bjrsea.

2/4 Old Belfast.

Page 183. The prisoners were taken to Kilmainham

In the Northern Star their names are given as follows:—" In Newgate — Mr. Thomas
Russell, of Belfast; Mr. John Young, do.; Mr. Rowley Osborne, do. ; Mr. Samuel Mus-
grave, Lisburn. In Kilmainham Jail — Mr. Henry Hazlett, of Belfast ; Mr. 5uiinuel NeUsoo,
do. ; Mr. Daniel Shanaghan, do. ; Mr. Samuel Kennedy, do. ; Mr. Charles Teeling^
Lisburn ; Mr. Barclay, Craigavad."

Page 183. Counsellor Joy

Henry Joy was Mary A. M*Cracken*s cousin, an able Q.C., afterwards Chief Baroo.
The annexed letter in the Af'Cracken MSS. is endorsed in Mary A. M*Cracken's hand-
writing— " 180 1. From Henry Joy respecting information about the Battles of Ballyoa-
hinch and Antrim, which I dechned procuring him.*' Possibly her knowledge of ThoDDas
Russell's inflexible purpose, consummated in 1803, influenced her decision.

LETTER FROM HENRY JOY TO MARY ANN MCCRACKEN.

Dear Mary,— I did expect you would, as I hoped you cnu'd, be the means of assUtioK me to fmtts.
respecting at least the Battles of Ballynahinch and Antrim, and an^ time previous to them, that mighc be
communicated with propriety. ^ Secrets I don't wish to know anything about ; but what can be mentioned
with truth and propriety you will, I trust, still endeavour to do.

With respect to Antrim I have very imperfect accounts, therefore on that subject I hope yoa will be
particular.

What was the plan of the Battle? In what points did it fail, and in what manner? Numhers engaged ;
and how was it connected with any general plan, had it been successful? How did it happen that the
North did not move when the South did ? When Antrim did step forward, what was the cause that Down
did not? Why did^ Down, at the time it did? Were those actual leaders Leaders on the field, who were
appointed by any higher power to be the leaders ? What description of Leaders dvi appear, and what diet mvt f
and why did they not ? These are some of the Questions that I wouW wish to^ ^y* resolved ; arid as their
answers require no names, nor the disclosures of any secrets that can in possibility injure any one, there will
be the less reasonable objection to the answers. Had Antrim been successful, what was to have followed? and
Down in like manner.

I am, Dr Mary, expecting your assistance in this,

Yrs. truly,
Friday^ it Dec.^ tSoi. H. Jov.

Page 183. Col. Nugent

Major-General Nugent, who commanded the Northern district, is evidently meant.
The following curious letter, now first- printed, was recently given to the Exiitor by W. J.
Fitzpatrick, ll.d., f.s.a., Dublin: —

Bangor, August 24tky 1798.

Dear Gevkrai,, — I cannot resist troubling you with the Case of John Allen, now under Sentence of a
Court-Martial for being concerned in taking arms out of the house of A. M'Cleland of this Paii.sh. When
called on trial, either through ignorance or from being badly ad%'ised, he told the Court he had nothing to say
against the charge, and threw himself at the Mercy of the Court. Tho' there were several respectable people
waiting to give htm a character, and three creditable persons had lodged affidavits with the clerk for the Pro-
secutions, stating that he had acted under the orders of one of their Captains of the name of Rohinson. I
enclose copies of the affidavits, which Mr. Connor has given to Allen's wife, a paper which, though dirty, I
know to be the signatures of several very honest and l.oyal men. I rather think he is a man not very fit for
service, and if sent he will leave a wife and f:imily totally destitute of support. I should therefore beg leave
to recommend him as a fit object for mercy, and remain.

Dear Sir, your ver>' obedient, very humble servant,
Major-General Nugent, Belfast. Robert Ward.

The annexed permits afford some idea of martial law at this dreadful time : —

" Permit Mr. David M*Tear, of Hazlebank, near the white house, in the County of
Antrim, or his servant, Alexander Neilson, going into Belfast for the assistance of Doctor
James M'Donnell, to pass .and repass at all hours. ** Thos. Goldik,

** This pass to be in force till Mrs. M*Tear gets her Bed. M -GenL**

*' Permit Mr. Dav^ Mattear to have in his Possession One Gun for the Protection of his
Property. " G. Nugent,

** Belfast, May 22d^ i7q8. *^ajor^GenlJ*''

Page 183. The Co Down General had been arrested

In spite of this arrest of Rev. W. Steele Dickson, Henry Monro was declared Adjutant-
General in his place. A premature attack was made by the insurgents on Saintiield on the
9th June, which is described in the following letter from the Gordon MSS. : —

LETTER OF ENSIGX SP.\RKS TO CAPT. PAYNE, BROADSTONE HOUSE, DUBLIN.

Downpatrick, iSelJunt^ rygS,
Mv Dear Sir, — I suppose you are surprized at my not having answer'd your letter sooner, but from the
day I rec<l it to this I could not say that a moment was my own ; even now we are ordered to keep all oar
Camp Equipage and Intrenching tools loaded on Cars so as to be ready to march at an hour's notice, yet I
believe we snan't stir for some time.

On Saturday, the 9th June, we had a severe engagement with the rebels near Saintiield. Our force
[illegible] of about 270 of our Regt 50 Yeoman InftT. 30 Yeoman Cavalry, and two Field pieces (6 pounders).
The Rebel force we then estimated at about 7,000, but, as we have since learnt, they exceeded xo,ooo about

Notes. 275

x,aoc of whom were armed with muskets, the remainder with pikes. The engagement commenced with our
Light Compy. who were on the right flank of our advanced g^uard. They received the Rebels' fire, and
returned it with great gallantry, tho with the loss of their Capt. till our main body came up, when the Battle
became more general. The ground the rebels had chosen to engage us on was the most advantageous to them
that could poiuibly be immagined — so much so, that I could not, during great part of the Action, bring either of
my two Guns to l)ear on the right, and was obliged to remain idle, exposed to an heavy fire for some minutes.
At length a strong column of rebels advanced on our left, attempting to turn our flank and surround us.
I waited till they came so close that I must make sure work, and then poured on them a heavy fire of
Canbter shot, which soon put that column to flight with dreadful slaughter. At that instant their party on
our right made a desperate attack on our ranks where I was with the guns, and also on our baggage, and
then it was that Dr. Jamei and Lieut. Unite fell. The broken columns of the Rebels were rallied undercover
of a young but close wood on our left, from which I soon dislodged them by a few discharges of Canister. Our
main body, with the two guns, now pushed forward, and drove the eotmy from the strong ground they occu'
pied on our right, where they were completely covered by strong ditches and banks. On this the enemy fled
ui every direction ; but seeing that we halted on the hill, a (^reat number of them again assembled on another
height about } of a mile distant ; but a few Round shot which I threw amongst them, and which we could
perceive made lanes through them, soon sent them scampering. Having but a few Cavalry, and being very
uneasy for toe fate of the wounded (our surgeon having run away panic struck at the beginning of the action),
Col. Stapylton thought it prudent to return to Comber, where we arrived about i2 o'clock^ and next day
marched into Belfast. At the time the rebels made the principal attack on our centre I was very nearly being
taken oflT. One fellow ran furiously at me with a pike, but I had the good fortune to ward off* the thrust with
my sword, and instantly laid the villain dead at my feet. Another fired a musket within 3 yards of me, but by
chance I then happened to leap on the gun limbers to take out some Canister shot, and the ball just erazed my
hand. I reed a slight cut of a pike over my right eye, and a trifling wound from a ball on my right nand, but
neither of them were such as to require sureical aid. or to prevent me from doing my duty ; therefore they
are not set down in any return. Several others of our officers and men who have been slightly hurt are not in
the returns.

Our Victory, tho' glorious, was very dear bought. I send you a return of the killed and wounded on our
side. That of the rebels were not less than 500, 300 of whom were killed on the spot, and the fields for Two
miles round were covered by the [illegible] who attempted going oflT, but who died [illegiblej ditches and
fields from loss of blood and fatigue.

I shall long to hear from you ; direct to this place. Give my most afl^e regards to Mrs. P. and all the
family; to Mr. and Mrs. Evans, &c., &c.

Believe me, Dr Sir, yours most truly,

MiKKBLL J. Sparks.

My Spectacles were knocked ofl" by a pike just as I was pointing one of the Great Guns, and one of my
glasses broke without doing me any further damage.

Return op Killed and Wounded, 9th June.

York Refft i 3 o^f^cers, 4 Sergts. 2 Drummers, 34 privates killed.

5 1 1 officer, I Sergt. i Drummer, 36 privates wounded.
N:T:Ards Cavalry— i Sergt. 8 rank and file. 7 Horses killed.
N:T:Ards InOy— 3 rank and file wounded, 4 volunteers killed, i wounded.

Total — 3 officers, 5 Sergts. 2 Drummers, 42 pn%'ates, and 4 volunteers killed.

I officer, I Sergt. i Drummer, 46 privates, and x volunteer wounded.

4 off" 6 S. 3 D: 88 p. 5 v.

There was an Engagemt between the troops and rebels at Ballynahinch, the iith inst. Gen. Nugent
commanded in person ; the troops suffered little. The rebels lost 700, and were finally dispersed. The
rebellion is over in this countr>'.

On the back of Sparks' letter is the following : —

On the 13th, part of our Regt. part of the Monaghan, and a troop of Dragoons, with one Curricle
6-pounder, under the command of Col. Stapylton, were posted so as to cut off" the retreat of the rebels to the
Ards ; we intercepted some of their supplies. Our situation was such as to prevent us having any share in
the engagement. Our dragoons, however, fell in with some of the broken and flying army, of whom they
killed about 50. I was not engaged, being stationed with gun, which I commanded, to guard the pass.

Page 188. James IIoi'e, a weaver

This remarkable man, whose political ideas were much in advance of his time, wrote an

account of his life, which, somewhat modified by Madden, is given, with a portrait, in the

first edition of The United Irishmen (third series, vol. i. p. 218 : Dublin, 1846). It is

strange that the biographies of James Hope, Henry Joy M'Cracken, and Henry Monro,

w^hich appear in the first edition of abov.*, are suppressed in the subsequent one, although they

are of peculiar interest, especially to Ulstermen. Hope was in the full confidence of H. J.

M*Cracken, and till his death was also a warm friend of his sisier. Amongst her MSS. are

two poems, endorsed in her writing, *' James Hope; given me shortly l>efore his death."

One of these poems is a political fable in the form of a long dialogue between a shepherd

and a thief, but is not of much merit. The other is subjoined, and is given as originally

written : —

POEM BY JAMES HOPE.

Some say that from England we want seperation,
The very Reverse we are Ready to prove.
We want closer connection in Mutual Afection,
But what separates us we Mean to Remove.

Com, Don't Let us caper with history on paper.
While Bankruptcy M.irshals its Terible Train ;
The day Must Arive when Nothing can thrive
But the tender of value for value Again.
So Neighbours be wise, Tak your Hands from your

Eyes,
Let your Enemy feel that your Vision's Corect,
And Nip in the bud Every wish to shed Blood ;
Let Idle declamers and profligiat schemers
Get on with there bother and olind one another ;
The Time is departed when peace they could smother,

On Patrick's day, &c.

The chain of opression that feters us both,

To shiver in pieces we'l Never be loth ;

We'l unite Holyhead to our own Hill of Howtb.

By our Interest that's common and cripled by no

one,
A Tide waiter, water-guard, jailer, or yeoman,
With Cead Milla Failud for all but the foemen.

On Patrick s day, &c.

276

Old Belfast.

The following letter of Hope to Mary Ann M'Cracken is endorsed in her writing,
*' from Jas. Hope. * N,B. — ** Mr. John " was her brother John : —

J^Ttn'. 2Stk^ iSoS.
Dbar Miss Mary, — I wished to have called on yoa this some time past, But never had time when you
would be at Leisure, and now write to tell you that on Saturday Evening I was obliged to tell Mr. John that
I must Leave his Employment for want of wages, not being able Longer to support my family out of my small
salery ; and now, in Consequence of the interest you have allwise in my wellfare, I will Describe to you what
has Besn the nature of my !iituation since I went to my present place. For the first year I was treated by Mr.
Plunket (whom I Consider to be a blunt, honest man) with the Greatest Rigor, under the Idea that, having
been an old Sufferer, I was what he Calls a follower of your family, and might be Corrupt Enough (as he had
observed several others) to take improper Liberty. However, by a subordination that Keauired some sUrength
both of Body and mind, I Conquered his prejudice, and completely secured his friendsnip and Confiden<-e.
But as to Mr. John, although he never Checked me much, he allwise treated me (when Ever I spoke to him
about my own Situation) with a silence which in another I would have taken for Contempt ; but imputing it
to his natural temper and press of business, and Coniceous of never having ^iven any Cause for it, I over
Looked it as a thing for which I Could not fully account, and which time Certainly would. I have at Linfcth,
through all the bustle and inconvenience of the place in which I was obleeged to do business, acquired such
improvement in the practice of writing and Keeping accounts as will Enable me to a considerable Share of
Business in any office where I may hereafter find Employment. This last assercion Is the only one that I
would Expect Mr. John to Contradict ; unless he would considder that if he was me and I somebody else, he
Could not at all times answer for his own Correctness. As to my future views, there is but one Rmployment
at wesent in my Reach, which is to apply to the men who Conduct the Cart Business for Belfast and Dublin
to Employ me as Guard, which, although it will aford me a Considerable salary, is a Long Road to Either
Ease or Credit, and an Employment as different from my Inclination as many others I have thought of, but if I
could stand it for one year, I hope I am still possesed of Resolution to save what money will Discharge a
few snuill accounts which I ow, and Enable me again to Join my Little family with the fair Chance of another
tradesman, without being troublesome to any one whom I call friend ; and this beine at present my hig^t
ambition. I will Risk the last power of my Constitution to attain it. One thing more I mention, and I hope
it will not hurt your feelings. I thought between winding and warping to have paid what I am indebted to
you, which, although I know you do not think of it, does not make me forget. I think my word is entitled to
some Credit, and I can assure you that the piece that was warped in our house was finished and taken off the
mill by my own hand, and if I was on my oath could freely disclose that it is my Br.lief there was not a broken
or Latched End in it Leaving our house, what Ever may have been said to the 0>ntrary. Let no friend of
mine grieve at my situation ; it is a Litle hard, but does not discourage me. I am determined to deser\*e
success. Dr Miss Mary, your Much Obliged Well-wisher,

James Hoopk (w).

Page 190. Russell was tried in Downpatrick

By the kindness of Miss Gordon, Saintfield, the Elditor has in his possession many
original documents relative to Russell's abortive attempt, including the indictments, verdicts,
&c., recorded. To Mr. Thomas Standfield he is indebted for the original of RusselPs Pro-
clamation, dated Head Quarters, July 24th, 1803. This was in the possession of his father,
James Standfield, a well-known philanthropic citizen of Belfast, and a personal friend of
Harry Monro and Mary Ann M'Cracken. The latter gave him the document which Russell
had given her.

Page 191. A NUMBER HAD EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES

Robert Simms (p. 273) received many letters from ** '98 " emigrants. The following are of
special interest as written by Robert Emmet's brother.

Extract from a letter 0/ Thomas Addis Emniet^ New York^ to hisfrUnd Robert Simms ^

Belfast {ist June^ iSoj).

I rejoice, My Dear friend, to think that the resolution you have taken of settling yourself
and family here will withdraw you from scenes which I cannot but sup|X)se must be
extremely irksome, and from a Country the future prospects of which appear to me
extremely gloomy. Believe me, it is with pain I find that you are determined to defer your
voyage for one year more. The determination to quit one's native home, natural connexions,
and antient friends is so serious and important, that I would scarcely venture to advise it to
any man ; but you have taken the resolution, and as your choice is made, I may say I do not
believe you will ever rei>ent it, and I may urge that every moment which you unnecessarily
delay the execution of^ your plan is so much thrown away out of your happiness in this
Country. As for myself, you will I am sure rejoice to learn that my good fortune here has
been so complete. The exertions of my friends have procured me the permission of following
my profession here, tbo' an Alien, and not qualified by performing the usual preliminary
studies within the State. And my prospects in business are to the mil as good as my most
sanguine expectations ever conceived. Within this fortnight or three weeks I have received
a very large and troublesome addition to my family by the arrival of my three youngest boys
from Dublin. They are in perfect health, and so much the harder to manage. I am now
surrounded by eight children, equally divided as to sex — the three eldest, your old fellow-
prisoners, are extremely well, and very fine children— your favourite, Margaret, tho' inferior
m beauty, is perhaps the best and most valuable ; they all remember you with very lively
affection. The little Scotch lassie is a great beauty and a greater pet, and the eighth is a
brave American Girl of only two months old. I had another lovely little girl who died of

NOTES. 277

the Chin Cough shortly after we left France. So much for my children. Mrs. Emmet, who
is as eager as I can be to see you, and desires the most affectionate remembrance to you,
would be very tolerably if she did not persevere in nursing, which never agreed with her ;
but we are at this moment also labouring under the most crying grievance of America — the
badness of servants— of which and the enormity of their wages you can scarcely form an idea.
Wlien you come out, if there be any servant really attached to you and your family, that would
accompany you from affection and not from speculation, jump at the proposal. Be so good
as to present my respects to Mrs. Simms, though I do not enjoy the pleasure of her
acquaintance personally, and to your Brother, who I hope has not forgotten me ; and believe
me, My Dear friend, very sincerely yours, T. A. Emmet.

Robert Simms, Esq., of Belfast.

New York, Novr, 2nd, i8oy.

Dear Simms, — I was extremely gratified by the receipt of yours of the 22nd of August
last, and particularly so by finding that you approved of the steps I was induced to take here
in politics. I have been compelled by a sense of duty, and the foolish scurrillity of the
federalists, to make myself very piominent by my controversy with Rufus King. Their
malignity (if they had succeeded) would have pursued me with as much fiirv and effect as that
of the Orangemen in Ireland — but thank God they are powerless. Even beaten as they are,
they combined to do me every professional injury in their power, but finding the combination
of no avail, a sense of individual interest forces them to abandon it. Rums King is placed
in public opinion just where he ought to be ; and unless the federalists possess the power of
reviving the dead, I hope and believe he will never again do much mischief; but that they
can do a great deal too much is manifest from the issue of Burr's trial. Tlmt man, whom
they hated while he appeared to be a Republican, whom they never tolerated till he became
a Renegade, and never openly upheld until he attempted to sever the Union and establish a
monarchy within the territory of the United States, — that man is acquitted by their
intrigues and interference, by their partiality and exertions, tho* his guilt is fully developed,
and no man affects to doubt it. It is very possible, however, that his acquittal will do good
— it will cause a revisal of some defective parts of our criminal law, and perhaps an
investi|;ation of the conduct and opinions of some of our Judges, who stand at the head of the
federalists, and continued in office notwithstanding the overthrow of their Party. Jefferson's
administration is, I think, entitled to all your praise, and as he will not serve again, I think
his probable successor (the present Vice-President) will equally claim your approbation for
his uprightness, and, what in these times is very necessary, for his decision and firmness. On
the subject of war, most people judge here differently from what 1 apprehend you do in
Europe — we expect it. The calamities it will produce are known to every body — universally
spoken of and admitted ; the ruin of our commerce, and of every occupation connected with
it, is held up in the strongest point of view by the English Agents and factors, and under-rated
by no one ; but nevertheless (except the English and factors) almost every one is ready and
willing to bear his share of those inconveniences and calamities. With the English Agents
and factors must t>e counted the leading Mercantile federalists in the commercial cities — if in
truth they are not the same thing with different names — but the other federalists in the
Country parts partake very much of the general spirit. The claims of Great Britain to
the right of search and impressment might have remained undecided upon, but for the affair
of the Chesapeak and the report of the West India Committee, which insists upon the necessity
of destroying almost all neutral commerce with belligerents ; these have now brought into
discussion the whole of her pretensions, and awakened the remembrance of all her conduct
towards America since 1793. '^^^ result is that the most moderate feel the necessity of
repressing those pretensions and resenting that conduct at some period ; and the most reflecting
imagine that no period can promise l^etier than the present. The first consequences of the war
are admitted and calculated upon, but the ultimate effects of it on the colonial system,
manufactures and commerce of England, and even upon her naval strength if she should fail
in the Baltic and be unable to supply herself with naval stores from thence, are anticipated
as fully equivalent to the misfortunes of its commencement. French politics have nothing ta
say to these sentiments, tho' undoubtedly, in the event of a rupture, America would endeavour
to turn to the best advantage the alliance with France ; and in the West India seas the twa
powers united, and the ports of each open to the cruisers and ships of the other, would
embarras England much beyond what she has ever experienced in that quarter. Adieu, my
good friend. Mrs. E. and my three eldest unite in the most affectionate remembrance with
yours very sincerely, T. A. Emmet.

I request you will remember me most kindly to your brother, and such of my old friends'
as still feel an interest for me.

278

Old Belfast.

Page 19s. Mr. Edward Bunting

This well-known musician was a pupil of William Ware, who was organist of the Parish
Church, and editor of a collection of anthems dedicated to the Marchioness of Doneg^dL
Bunting was an enthusiastic collector of Irish airs, which he published in three volumes in
1796, io09> and 184a His daughter, Mrs. K. A. Macrory, Dublin, writes the Editor that
'* her &ther spent a fortune in collecting these airs." Mary A. M Cracken, her brothers John
and Frank, and Henry Joy also assisted him. The M'Crackens sent Patrick Lynch to Con-
naught in 1802. He writes—*' I stayed in Castlebar ; had good success ; got near 50 songs,
and chiefly from the Mechanicks. I found it expensive— it cost me 2 guineas. I returned
to Louisborough, and heard of a Blind piper. I went to a Dancing ; I took down six good
songs from the Blind man, and I never found any one who had so great variety of good old
songs and tunes. He sings well, and has a great memory — in short, he would be more useful
to Mr. Bunting than any man in Connaught. However, I could not stay by him, for I was
out of money, and had to return to West port, where I am running in debt and getting no
songs. Lord ! how long must I be confined this way ! " The annexed estimate of the cost
of production of 1,000 copies of his book is taken from a letter of Bunting's addressed
to Frank M*Cracken. Campbell is the poet Thomas Campbell : —

xst. Campbell .. .. .. .. ^50

and. Harp engraving (paid for) . . 10

3. Frontispiece, "Uempson" .. .. .. 15

^ X liic •• >• •• •• •• •• 13

5. Title for the out&ide in same manner as Moore & ) g

Stevenson's.. .. )

6. Paper at from £^ xos. to £4 os. od. per ream for \

50 reams,^ which will only print 96 pages per >• aoo
X ,000 copies . . ^ . . ^ . . I

7. Engraving Music plates with Irish titles, &c., 90 ) ,

plates at ia/6 f

8. Working off at press at 5/- per hundred .. 50

Allowance to Music dealers, 33 per cent. . . 300

^^700 without the letterpress.

The following unpublished minute of a preliminary meeting relative to the great gather-
ing of Irish Harpers in Belfast, July loth, 1792, is taken from Macadam AfSS. It contains
the first mention of Bunting's name in this connection. (For an account of the Harpers'
meeting, see an article by the Editor's father, Robert Young, j.p., c.E., Ulster J oumtU
4>f Archaology^^zxi,^ 1^5-)

At a meeting of several Subscribers to the scheme for assembling The Harpers (By Public Advertisement)
in Bel£ut, the 23d of April, 1792, . . It was agreed —

That a Committee of five subscribers be appointed to forward and receive subscriptions — to circulate by
advertisement in different News Papers and other ways the period and objects of the meetinjc. And to regulate
and conduct the subordinate parts of the scheme. That Mr. H. Joy, Mr. Robt. Bradshaw, Mr. Robert
Simmes, Doctor Jas. M'Donnell, and Mr. John Scott Be the Committee. That^ Mr. Robert Bradshaw be
appointed Treasurer to the fund, and Secretary. That a Committee be now appointed as Judges for appre*
cutting the merits of the different performers on the Irish Harps who may appear at Belfast on Tuesday, the
tenth day of July next. That the following Ladys and Gentlemen be appointed to that committee : —

Reverend Mr. Meade. Honble. Mrs. Meade.

Reverend Mr. Vance. Honble. Miss De Courcey.

Mr. Rainey Maxwell. Mrs. M'Kenzie.

Mr. Robert Bradshaw. Miss Catherine Clarke.

Mr. Henry Joy. Mjss Grant.

Doctor Jas. M Donnel. Miss Bristow.

Mr. Thos. Moris Jones. Mrs. John Clarke.

Mrs. Kennedy.

That the premiums be adjudg'd (in proportion to the funds rals'd) in the following gradations : —
ist premium, £..».% and, ditto ; 3rd, ditto ; 4th, ditto ; 5th, ditto, with smaller gratuities to others in aid
of their expenses. That the airs to be perform'd previous to the Adjudication of the premiums be confined to
the native music of the Country — the music of Ireland. In order to revive obsolete atrs. It is an instruction to
the Judges on this occasion not to be solely governed in their decisions by the degree of execution or taste of
the several performers, but, independent of these circumstances, to consider the person entitled to additional
claim who snail produce Airs not to be found in any public Collection, and, at the same time, deserving of
preference bv their intrinsic excellence. It is recommended to any Harper who is in possession of scarce com*
positions to have them reduced to Notes. That the Reverend Mr. Andrew Bryson, of Dundajk, be requested
to assist, as a person versed in the language and antiquities of the Nation ; And that Mr. William Weare, Mr.
Edward Bunting, and Mr. John Sharpe m requested to attend as practical Musicians. That notification of
the meeting on loth July and an Invitation to the Harpers be published in the two Belfast papers and in
National Journal^ and in one of the Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Kilkenny, Galway, Sligo, and I>erry

NOTES.

279

Page 197. On examining her Papers

A number of interesting MSS. formerly in her possession have been kindly given to
the Editor by Christopher Aitchison, Esq , J.P., Elroswood, Loanhead, N.B., who aUo
generously presented to the Belfast Museum part of the uniform and the sword worn by
Henry Joy M'Cracken at the Battle of Antrim. Amongst the MSS. are several poems by
Miss Balfour, many letters of Edward Bunting on Irish music, and letters written by Mary
Ann M*Cracken to her brother Frank ; also several from the Rev. Sinclair Kelbume, Henry
and Francis Joy, &c. The following examples may be of interest : —

This was written after reading " The Sword of my Harry," by Miss Balfour.

.\nd that again on Erin's plains
Her sons the patriot's meed shall claim.

'Twas thus the cause the Hero fell,
Who vainly with oppression strove,

But yet his Country's sorrows tell.
Who dared not act can yet approve.

Thev tell that still the spark remains
Which kindled once the hallowed flame,

>, when black clouds and stormy wind
Obscure and darken o'er the skies,
One beam that lingers still behind,
Shows that again the sun will rise.

THE SEVENTEENTH OF JULY. Written by Miss Balfour.

O'er the cold p;rave where Erin's Hero sleeps,
The despot triumphs and the patriot weeps,
While round the spot with liberal hand he spreads
Fresh leaves still glist'ning with the tears he sheds ;
For e'en amidst this desolated land,
Where, scarce extinct, still smokes the fatal brand,
Where vile oppression's tool and faction's slave

Bear down and trample on the good and brave,
Some hearts with freedom's tide yet fondly swell,
Some lips yet dare the hero's worth to telf^
Dare to repeat with just and noble pride
His name, who bravely for his country died —
Dare still to boast, with emulation fired,
How Erin's son in Erin's cause expired.

The subjoined poem is endorsed in Mary Ann M'Cracken's writing, "Papers from Miss
Templeton." The incident referred to is probably the execution of four privates of the
Monaghan Militia at Blaris on i6th May, 1797.

When bid to take aim at the Irishman's heart,
The stout Caledonian recoiled with a start :
" The first of my country, the first of my clan,
Ever ordered to fire on a blindfolded man !
You'll find fitter tools to perform such a deed —
By Irishmen's hands let the Irijihman bleed :
In the spirit of Cain let them murder each other,

And the united fall by his MuiUd brother."
So the Irish went first, and the Irish went last,
And. guarded by Irish, the prisoners past,
On their coffins knelt down, took their silent

farewell,
The united men fired, the united men fell.

Page 197. A MAN NAMED M*Skimin

Samuel M*Skimin was a native of Ballyclare, and came to Carrickfergus about 1798,
where he held some subordinate position in connection with the yeomen. It is said that his
reason for so doing was his idea that he was a '* marked man." Soon afterwards he started
a small shop, and commenced to collect material for his famous History of CarrickferguSt the
Brst edition of which appeared in 181 1. Local tradition says that the credit of gathering in-
formation and procuring original documents to copy was his ; but that a schoolmaster named
0*Beirney, and another friend called Hagan, lent their aid in putting his material into a
literary form. He seems to have been careless with other MSS. l)esides those lent to him by
Mary M 'Cracken, as it is mentioned that the Carrickfer^s records had been lent to him, and
were not forthcoming at the inquiry held by the Muniapal Reform Commissioners, 1833-4.
A second edition, much enlarged, of his History of Carrickfergus was published in 1823, and
a thiid in 1829. Some Addenda were printed in 1833, and an Appendix added in 1839.
He contributed also to the Dublin Penny Journal^ the Northern Ivhigy &c. He corres-
ponded with several well-known antiquarians, including T. Crofton Croker, Dr. R. R.
Sladden, Dr. Tames M'Donnell, Dr John O'Donovan, and Robert S. Macadam. His death
occurred in 1043, ^^^ ^^ ^^ buried in the graveyard of St. Nicholas' Church, Carrickfergus.
He collected a good deal of material relative to '98, which was published as a small history
of the rising in the North, entitled Annals of Ulster ^ in 1849. He was a Presbyterian,
and a member of the congregation of the Rev. James Seaton Reid, D.D., author of the
History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, After his death, his collection of MSS. wat
disposed of by his son ; part became the property of the Rev. James Seaton Reid ; a portion
was purchased by the Rev. Classon Porter of Lame ; and some of the most curious, includ-
ing an annotated copy of the autobiography of Newell the informer, came into Dr. R. R.
Madden^s possession.

Mr. John Coates, J.P.. informs the Editor that he has often seen the historian of Carrick-
fergus serving his customers in his little grocer's shop in Irish Quarter West, and then retiring
to his desk at the end of the counter to add a few lines to his work.

28o

Old Belfast.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES FROM PINKERTON MSS., &c

FINES AND FORFEITURES DURING STEWART BANKS* SOVEREIGNSIIIP,

1778.

Light bread value ...

Fines for profane swearing ...

Fines levied off butchers

A sum forfeited

Produce of condemned yarn ...

ditto of false weights

ditto of a sack of potatoes forfeited ...
Fresh butter seized, 61 J lbs. ...
As weigh -master, half produce of condemned butter
Flax seized, 36} lbs.

Besides two carcases of mutton and a quantity of beef.

The figures subjoined for comparison have been kindly supplied by Robert M' Henry,
Esq., Chief Clerk of Petty Sessions Court, Belfast : —

1894.
Amount of fines imposed ... ... ... ... ;^3,409 11 11

Amount of fees (denoted by stamps) received ... ... 1*504 2 o

Number of cases, 33,112.

ORANGE BALLADS COLLECTED BY W. PINKERTON.

;tS

loi

£m

loi

THE ORANGEMEN OF BELFAST, (c. 1813.)

Last Twelfth of July, as you quickly shall hear,
The bold Orangemen of Belfast did appear,
With their Flags and their Colours together did join
To commemorate the deeds done at the Boyne.

Down, down, &c.

With their Drums and their Colours they marched away
To the Church of Lisbum, as I heard them say ;
Reverend Doctor Cupples, loyal and sincere.
He preached them a Sermon when they came there.

He's Grand District Master of Lisbuni Town,
He's a tiue Orangeman, and a Friend to the Crown,
With brave Captain Verner, near Belfast does dwell,
They inspected our true Orange Heroes right well.

Sure there was Three Thousand in sweet Lisbum town

Of stout Orange Heroes inctrcled around ;

They all joined their hands, and three times they did

cheer.
Then they parted in love, and homewards did steer.

But when they drew near to the end of the town,
The Croppies of Belfast began for to frown ;
Both hedges and ditches were lined along.
And with Courage they marched through the Rebel
throng.

But as they were marching through Hercules Street,
A great opposition the^ happened to meet
From turn-coat Croppies, became Ribbonmen,
For to murder our Orangemen they did intend.

Belfast District Master, brave Woods is his name,
He bid them all return from whence they came
To their different Lodge Rooms, and have a due care.
If they were assaulted, no Rebel to spare.

So when he dismissed them they all marched aw^ay,
But two of those Lodges they met a sad fray ;
When they entered North Street the Rebels did

throng,
Both brick bats and stones upon them were thrown.

Brave Calwell and Lynas deserve great appbiuse.
Like true sons of William they supported our cause ;
Carrying the Colours, they were three times knocked

down,
But they fought their way through and maintained

their ground.

From every entr>' and from every lane.

The brick bats and stones in shoMrers they came ;

Rut the Lord still preserv'd them, their hves did secure,,

Till they safe arrived at bold Thompson's door.

When they entered their Lodge Room, refreshment to

take.
The Croppies another attack they did make ;
Those cowardly Rebels to racking did fall.
Throwing stones thro' the windows to murder them alL

God prosper brave Carroll, and Morgan also.

And likewise M'Mullen, wherever they go.

For they fired out upon them, they loaded with balU

And three of those Rebels before them did faU.

Those cowardly villains they scatter 'd and fled
At the cries of the wounded and sight of the dead ;
The valiant stout Lettens deserves great applause '
For they bravely supported the Protestant cause. '

Success to bold Ritchy, the public can tell.
He fought like a Lion those Rebels to quell
Thro' Rebellious Belfast, which still was the seat
Of Traitors and Rebels, a den of deceit.

God Prosper those true Orange Sons of the light.
May all tneir actions for ever shine bright ;
Likewise Captain Verner and his Yeomanry,
Who made aJI those damn'd Croppy Ribbonmen flee.

Here

:'s to Captain Verner, long may he live well,

peace for to keep, and the Rebels to quell **

When he pute on his regimentals, it puts m» ■» '■»»
Of the Glorious King William when he

Boyne.

So now I conclude with a toast at the last —
God pro«per the true Orange Sons of Belfast,
Likewise Brother Reed, who employed me to pen
These lines to the praise of the bold Orangemen.

Miscellaneous Notes.

281

Tribute to the Memory

OF WILLIAM QUAIL, late or Belfast,

KY A Member of No. 337 (about 1815X

You Oransemen of Ireland, I pray you lend an ear.
While I relate a tragic tale as ever you did hear,
The most atrocious of the kind ere acted in our land,
Committed on the body of a Loyal Orangeman.

The ninth of January', it being the Lord's Day,
The Orangemen of Belfast town did meet without delay ;
Strict orders had be^n issued to assemble without fail
For to inter a Brother, his name was William Quail.

He being a Yeoman of the town, a party did attend,
A Solemn Dirge was played along, the scene was truly

grand.
The procession moved in order till we came to Friar's

Bush.
Where, with military honours, his body was laid in dust.

The Funeral Rites being over, we march home without

delay,
No opposition did appear for to impede our way ;
ThoM sons of Baliel (sic) did not think it right for to

appear
For to oppose our Orangemen, whose hearts were void

of fear.

But Night's sable curtain scarce was drawn, burning

with Hellish rage.
Those savage monsters sallied forth, their wrath for to

assuage.
In Friar's Bush they instantly assembled without fail,
And, shocking to relate, they raised our brother,

William Quail.

O'er hedge and ditch they hauled him to satiate their

rage.
Until they came to Ormeau bridge, and there they did

him leave.
With horrid imprecations from the most bloody clan.
Because he was one of William's sons, and a true

Orangeman.

Ye Friends of Religious Liberty, are these your pious

deeds?
Why so provoke the mighty God to pour vengeance on

your heads ?
Although you have raised his body, thus led on by

hellish wrath.
The mortal part you could not hurt, his soul was gone

aloft.

THE ANTRIM HUNT. Panegyric Stanzas tktreoH, By William Percy, 1826.

See Doagh throng'd with grandeur, see Farrell's great
Inn,

Where our fine Antrim Hunters festivity win ;

Where a pattern's aflbrded, admired by all.

Of the generous landlord in good Donegall.

Hark away ! hark away ! whil.>t we fervently pray.
That our kindest of landlords may still bear the sway.

The Earl of Belfast I shall now compliment ;
May he learn from his father, in levying his rent ;
May he ne'er, with mad factions, his mind e'er

embroil.
But be brave in the army, like great Arthur Moyle.

Should the Marquis of Downshire your hunt ever grace,
He'll present you a cup. to bring on a fine race ;
'MoDfst the highest, he's high — patriotic he's still ;
God prosper for ever the family of Hill.

Now the son of a lord, who Shane's-Castle did own ;
Whose death at old Antrim, all Irishmen moan :
Still possessing a princely estate by entail.
Pray who can be meant but the great Lord O'Neill ?

And the Gen'ral, his brother, once Colonel, you know.
Your hunt would embellish, and add to your show ;
He is gen'rous at home, in the army he's brave.
And will ne'er be corrupted to act like a knave.

The noble Macartney next comes for my theme ;
The heir of Lord George, a most honoured name —
Ambassador he, to the great Chinese court —
His heir must rank high in the midst of your sport.

The race of the Pakenhams now I shall sing,
Who fought, and who died, for their country and king ;
When retir'd from the army, and levees of court,
They too, would add lustre, and brighten your sport.

The graceful MacDonnell, who lives at Glenarm,
In person and manners his lady must charm.
Whether sporting at home, or your 'semblage he grace*
There is much that is noble display'd in his face.

Does Bateson. Sir Robert, e'er visit your hunt?
If he do, you'll respect him as always your wont.
The great Earl Moira you know he succeeds ;
May you all learn from Moira political creeds.

The next is great Watson, a Nimrod by name.
The first of all hunters, and horsemen of fame —
Commodore was his father, on India's old station ;
The pride of his king, and the boast of his nation.

I now feel ^uite happy in choosing my air,
And melodiously singing to praise good Adair ;
I received his kindness full seven years since.
And conceive him possess'd of the heart of a prince.

I now^ with best feelings, smooth numbers advance
'1 he high estimation of Suffolk's M'Cance ;
I hope he just knows that I'm still on the globe,
Would bow to his honour, but shabby 's my robe.

John Sinclair, Esquire, I now must advance,
At least to an equal with comrade M'Cance
In the sports of the field few can either excel.
And proud is the minstrel their praises to swell.

A FEW OF THE LOCAL ANECDOTES COLLECTED BV ROBERT

S. MACADAM. ( A/ACADAAf AfSSJ

Some excavations were made at a place called Camaghliss, near Beirut, with the hope
of finding coal. A woman there one day inquired of the diggers whether they expected
to get English or Scotch coal !

Durinp; the time of the Rev. Sinclair Kelburne's ministry in the Third Presbyterian
Congregation, Belfast, it happened one Sunday that the Sovereign (chief magistrate) of the
town was present at service. His worship was a notorious card-player, and had been
engaged at his favourite occupation the night before until a late hour. His pew was in the
gallery, and during the service, while leaning over the front, he pulled his handkerchief out
of his pocket, and along with it a padc of cards, which scattered and fell down into the
house. The minister pointedly remarked that somebody's psalm-book was badly bound !

282 Old Belfast.

The first steam engine erected at Beirut was at the Spriii(*field Cotton Mill, betoogiiig
to Messrs. Stevenson, and was actually used for pumping up water to drive a water-whed.

A well-known Belfast merchant, in the beginnmg of this century, was in the habit of
exporting various ^oods to a port in Spain, where they were sold by an ajgent. The (oodi
were osimlly provisions, but sometimes the carpo was made up of linens and other ooni-
modities. As was customary, the agent, in sending back his Account of Sales, alvnm made
several deductions, such as breakages, damage by sea water, &c. ; but one invariable item
was ** Eatin by th§ Rats^** so much. It happened on one occasion that the Belfast mev^Muat
sent out a large quantity of ifaiYr, which were then made at Newtownbreda. In chie time
the Account of Sales arrived from Spain, and, to his great astonishment, a deduction wis
made as usual for " Eaten by the rats."

A Belfast hardware merchant, about the rame period, whose knowledge of geogr a phy
was not very extensive, was encouraged to send out a consignment of goods for sale to the
West Indies. It is a positive fact that among ihem were inclu<ied a quantity of skates and
warming-pans ! The skates turned out a ba>l speculation, but, strange to say, the wanning-

J)ans were sold at a large profit. The agent in the West Indies, by a slight change in their
brm, was able to pass them off as improved skimmers for sugar-pans.

In many of the white limestone quarries in the Counties of Antrim and Down theie are
frequentlv found curiously-shaped large masses of flint, all nearly similar in sise and form,
and beanng a rude resemblance to a human head and trunk. Geologists suppose them to
be organic remains, and know them by the name of Para mouJras, This has all the
appearance of a Greek word, but no one has been able to point out its derivation. The fiKt
is, there is no Greek in it at all, and the real origin of the name is thi<— An English
geologist (Dr. Buckland, I think), being in the North of Ireland, and hearing of these
singular fossils, visited the large limestone quarries at Moiia, and saw a number of them
there. The quariymen were at woik, and he asked one of them what name they gave to these
stones. *' We call them Para moudra^^ said the man. The doctor was astonished at
hearing such a fine Greek-sounding name, but it simply means in Irish *' Ugly Paddy.**

Shortly before Mr. Godwin ceased to be the engineer of the Ubter Railway, he wished
to try some experiments vfithaft/AraciU coal, and to use it in the locomotives instead of coke.
Anthracite has not only a hard name, but is very hard to bum ; and very likely the stoker
who tried it was tired enough of it when he got back from his journey. Some of his
acouaintances who saw him cleaning out his fire-lx>x on his return, in very bad humour, said
to him — *• Why, what's wrong with you, to-day. Jack ?" *• Wrong," saia he, •' everything's

wrong. Mr. Godwin wants me to burn this Antichrisi, but I might as well try to bam

the devil himself!"

A retired bookseller of Belfast [Turn Ward] built for himself a villa in the neighboar-
hood, in one room of which appeared, of course, a number of well-bound books. It is
highly probable, however, that Tom*s acquaintance with books in general was only confined
to their titles, if we may judge by one little fact. Finding that he had no medical works,
he selected what he considered the most useful, and actually ordered Buckan^s JDcmgstic
Medicine and De Lolme on the Constitution,

The same bookseller, speaking of the library in his new villa, said it was so retired that
he could read there all day long and nobody be a bit the wiser !

When Ibrahim Pacha paid a visit to Belfast in 1846, he arrived on a Sunday momii^
and put up at the Royal Hotel. Being desirous of making good use of his time, and not
knowing that the Sunday would make any difference, he forthwith sent out a messenger to
seek a gentleman for whom he had a letter of introduction. This was the representative of
the linen-house of Richardson & Co., Mr. Valentine, who at the time had just gone to
church. The messenger followed him there in great haste, and told the sexton his errand,
and that he must let Mr. Valentine know at once. The sexton accordingly went in, and,
going forward to the pew. addressed him literally in these words : — " Mr. Valentine ; sir, if
you plaze, the King of /Egypt's wantin' you."

A certain Belfast clergyman was frequently the butt of some of his acuter brethren. One of
them actually made a wager with another that the person referred to could not tell whether
William the Conqueror or William the Third reigned first. He was told there was a
difference of opinion between them on this point, and that the matter was left to his
decision. He looked very wise for a few moments, and then gave the following oracular
response: — "Well, getjtlemen, in my opinion there is a good deal to be said on both
sides."

NOTE ON BELFAST CHARACTERS.

The ''street characters" of Belfast sixty years ago were numerous and remarkable.
Some account of them is given in T. Gaffikin*s lecture on *' Belfast Fifty Years Ago."
" Cocky Bendy " was the favourite itinerant fiddler. GafHkin writes — " Cocky Bendy was a

Miscellaneous Notes.

283

v«7 liltle tMndy-le^cil man, who knew the tun« 10 play a
frequented. ' Garryowen,' ' Palrick's Day,' and Ihe "•--
airs." "Black Sam" was a negro who had perfoii
children of ihai period. The fame of Tantra Baibus Kas survived 10 the piesenl day.
Pinketton ga^'e an account of him in Netes and Quenii ; but the fullest and most anthenlic
life of this strange being is found in a rare chap-book, entitled, "The Life II of il William
Scott, II atias u "^nira ^rbus, 11 wiih 11 numerous anecdotes connected with 11 that eccentric
character, II It^ether with II an Eleg)' II written on his death by a Gentleman in Bel&st. II
Belfast : II printed for the Hawkeis. |i 1S33." From this pamphlet it appears William Scott,
better known ai Tantia Baibu!^ was bom near Ballynahioch about 1778. Although
" thick willed," he had amasieil at one time, by peddling hardware, the sum of ;£6o. Ine
story of his gains got wind, and called forth a iwarm of competitive vagrants, who offered
more substantial treats to the couniiy people in the form of cheap sweets, pictures, toys.
&c., in exchange for rags, broken glass, buttons, and old metal, to the ruin of Scolt and
themselves. By this stagnation of business, Tanlra was obliged to use his hoard, and took
to drink and be^ng. lie was accused of acting as a spy during the rebellion, and for years
aher never visited Co. Down, flonesty was not one of his strong points, as ihe following
extract indicates : — " Pewler kitchen vessels at this time supplied the place of delf, and, as
this maleiial always found a ready sale, the cultural greed of Tantra could not withstand
the temptation of appropriating Ihe tempting ornaments of the dresser to his own use.
Woe betide the housewife who, when Tantia was her guest, indulged in the luxury of
a morning nap, for Tantra was up with the lark, and ten to one but her nicely -scoured
pewler plates were converted into cordial before sunset." He also was an adept at pilfering
brasl rappers. Gaffikin notes — "Tantia Baibus vas a man who would have danced for
buttons, or iwam across the river at the L<mg Bridge on the coldest day in winter for a few
coppers." His picture, engraved by John Tliomson, is the largest copperplate be executed.

*(*^E*

COCKTlB]ES"]IJT",

^ wf II Itnovfu ctaracUT in Btlfast

INDEX.

Adair, Kobeit, his petition, 96.

Aitchison, C, MSS. fiom, 279.

An*rchy uid poverlv, 177.

Aotrim. battle of, 1831 cut of, 194; Earl of, an.

Appendix. 249.

Atdes Barony, description of, 138-143, 263.

Ardkeen, Castle at, 33 ; Ctiurch of. Ml-

Ardquin, inquisition taken at, 33, 256.

Armagh bamt, 311,313.

Army, rules for marching, 14S.

Assembly at Kilcronaghan, 210.

AsMMS in Ulster in 1615, 30, 156.

Assessment for Ulster, 74-77.

Bagenal, Marshal, letter frotn, 15.

Balfour, Miss, 379.

Ballyboe of land, 207.

BallytolKTt, 139, 363.

Ballybes surrenders, 335.

Bangor, Custom-house, 44; ancient bell at, 45.

Barracks, attack on, 178.

Bastille, anniversary of taking, 180, 373, 373.

Belfast, fottilied, 5 ; captured, 56-59 ; trade of, in
1646-1648, 65-67, 361 ; Lough and Harbour
of, 147, 164 ; view of, 169, 1S9 ; Castle of, old,
146 ; Charitable Society of, 193.

Belfast Lough, Chart of, 147 ; and Hail

164.
Bellingham, Col. Thomas, diary of. 144-146
Bellman of Belfast («</), 352.
Belturbel, seal of, 74.
Benburb Castle, view of, 200 ; battle of 63.

341, 247.
Black, Sir Samuel, portrait.
Blackstalf, river of, 356.
Bleachers in 1839, 255.
BIyth, James, examination of, 163.
Book-plates, 373.
Books relating to Ireland, 250.
Borrowe, Capl. Thomas, 3.
Boyne, battle of, map, 153.
Brantry Friary, joo.
Brewing, 9.

Brown,' Capl. Thomas, 3.
Bruce, Rev, Michael, 361.
Bunting, Edward, 195, 37S.

Carleboy, 4.
Carlingford, 69.
Carn money witches, 367.
Carrick-a-Kede (r»/)> 40.

Index.

285

Carrickfergus, lands reserved for garrison, 5, 256 ;

petition of agents for, 18-20 ; King landing

at, 146, 264; Custom-house, 45; Corporate

Seal of, 163 ; Corporation of, 266 ; the French

in. 183, 273.
Carrickmacross burnt, 246.
Castlereagh, 2 ; Con O'Neill's castle at, i6o.
Castle Street, shop in, 1790, 179.
Catholic Emancipation, 179.
Cave Hill, 130, 256, 266.
Cessation, the, 1643, 55t 260.
Chancery, suit in, 41.
Charles the First, 56.
Charlemont, 52, 214, 224. 236.
Chichester, Sir A., 20, 21, 256; Lord, 28, 29,

256 ; patents confirmed, 1 27- 138, 263.
Church, old, in High Street, 102.
Church, the Old Corporation, 166, 268.
Civil List, 100. 105, 262.
Claneboy, 1542, 2, 3.
Claneboy, Lady, 64.
Clones, battle at, 221, 222.
Cocky Bendy^ 282, 283, (of/) 284.
Coleraine, 28.

Collier Family, tomb of, 166.
Commissioners for Ireland, 61-64, 86.
Commonwealth and North of Ireland, 73-108.
Conformity, Acts of, 1 76.
Conn's water, 42 ; bridge at, 44.
Connaught, arms of, 89.
Conway, Lord, 213, 214.
County cess, 1744, 259.
Connoly, Owen, 201.
Conway, Dame Amy, 41 ; Henry, 203.
Corn, account of, in 1643, 55.
Corry, John, account of, 109, 116.
Covenanters tear their colours, 60.
Cowley, Robert, Master of the Rolls, report by,

I, 252.
Crcaghtes, the. 5. 220-228, 232, 234, 235.
Cromwell in Ireland, 70 ; letter from, 97, 261 ;

portrait of, 98.
Customs, Excise, &c., in Ireland, 1637, 42-48,

100.
Cypher, 9.

"Defenders," 177, 182, 183.

Deputy, Lord, the (L.D.), 2, 3, 9 ; and Council

to the Queen, 12, 13.
Deny, gateway in walls of, 8$.
Dissenters excluded from public afl'airs, 176.
Doak, Hugh, 176.

Donaldson, Hugh, examination of, 163.
Donegall Family, arms of, 127, 265 ; Lady, 175,

176; leases of, 272.
Drennan. Wm., M.D., residence of, 169 ; portrait

of, 173.
Drogheda, St. Lawrence's Gate, 69.
Dromore, battle at, 70-72.
Drumflugh, battle at, 240, 241.
Dublin, council at, 74 ; arms of, 74.
Dunbar, Mary, her examination, 161.
Dundalk, battles at, 53, 208, 209.
Dungannon, arms of, 36; besieged, 49, 51 ; taken,

214, 223 : burnt, 229.

Dunluce, view of, 10.

Earl's Mill Ford Castle, 226, 227.
*' Eaten by the Rats," 282.
Elizabeth, Queen (ri#/), 7 ; her arms, ii.
Emmett, Robert, 190; T. A., 276, 277.
Enniskillen, arms of, 32.
Essex, Earl of (m/), 20.
Kxchange Rooms, Old, 196.
Excheouer, order of the, 39, 40, 260.
Exporting, articles for, in 1572, 11.

Felim O'Neill, 213, 217, 218, 220-222, 225. 228,

230, 236, 241, 244.
Fenton, William, examination of, 162.
Fermanagh, inquisition at, 32, 33.
Ford of Belfast (ri//), i.
Frederick Street Schoolhouse, 196.
Free trade with America, 179.

Gallows, ancient, 32, 260.
Galway city, plan of, 99.
Gaol delivery in Ulster, 256, 257, 266.
Garmoyle. 42.
Gerrard, Sir Thomas, 2.
Giant's Causeway, view of, 157, 266.
Glass- House (rt#/), 283.
Glenarme or Glanarme, 5, 7.
Green, Robert, correspondence of, 165-168, 267,
267.

Ilaltridge, James, examination of, 164.

Hand-loom, 12.

Harpers, Irish, 273, 278.

Hearts of Steel, 177, 178, 270, 271.

High Street, Belfast, old view of, 187.

Hill, Arthur, 120.

Hillsborough, EUirl of, 120.

Hillsborough Fort, 122.

Hollywood, 44.

Hope, James, 188, 275.

Ibrahim Pacha, 282.

Imports, 65-67.

Ireland, Speed's map of, 1627, 2or.

Ironworks, 41.

Joy, Francis, 175, 180, 181 ; Henry, 274.

Kells captured, 247.

Kelburne, Rev. S., 281.

Kilkenny, arms of, 77; Parliament at, 218;

Council of, 243.
Kylwarling, 3 ; felling oaks in {cut\ 41.

Lagan, lock-keeper's house on the, 118.

Leinster, arms of, 91.

Lennan, Charles, examination of, 162.

Leslie, Earl, Lieut -General, 223, 231.

Letters, postage of, 68.

LifTord, inquisition at, 34.

Linen Hall, 179; plan of, 198.

Linen yarns, Irish, exporting, ii ; manufacture

of, 178. 179 ; history of, 254, 255.
Lisburn, view of, 155.

286

Old Belfast.

Lisnagarvy, 49. 60, 72.

Lock-keeper's house on the Lagan, 118.

Londonderrie, inquisition at, 34-36 ; arms of, 34 ;

view of, 35.
Loom, hand, 12.
Lord Deputy, a, 6, 9, 12, 14.
Lord Treasurer's objections, answers to, 1 6-1 8, 256.

MacAdam, Capt. John, 59 ; MSS., 281.

M 'Art's Fort, Cave Hill, 182.

M'Cabe, Thomas, 170, 269.

M'Cracken, Mary Ann, portrait of, 174 j life of.
175-197,269; Captain John, 176,269; wife of,
176 ; her schooling, 177 ; Henry Joy, 183-188.

M*Cammond. Wm., portrait, xii.

M'Donnell, Dr. John, notes by, 247.

M'Felim, Sir Brian, 2, 3, 8.

M'Skimin, Samuel, 197, 279; MSS., 129, 258,

273» 279.
M*Tier, Mrs. M., extracts from letters of, 169-

173, 269.

Maiming of cattle, 177.

Magee, Island, 20, 21, 161, 256, 267.

Martin, George, 17$, 176.

Maryboro' capitulates, 245.

Masareene, village of, in 1851, 31.

Meal mills wanted, 6.

Mercator's map of Ulster, portion of, 43.

Meredith, Major, relation by, 68-72, 261.

Ministers, Scotch, 76, 101-105, 261.

Molyneux, Dr. Thomas, Journey to y** North,
152-160, 265.

Moncke, Charles, report by, 42-46.

Monk, General, 247.

Monroe, Major-General, in Newry, 49-56, ?6o ;
in Belfast, 56-64, 237, 260, 274 ; at Lisne-
garvy, 60 ; at Carrickfergus, 61 ; his petition,
88, 99 ; Colonel George, 223, 227, 233, 234,

Montgomery, Viscount, 41, 239 ; Colonel, 184.

Mountjoy, 214, 215, 219, 234.

Mourne Mountains, view of, 49, 52.

Mullintur, Council at, 231.

Munster, arms of, 89.

Muslin trade, 177, 183, 270.

Mussenden, Mr., 167, 268.

Neagh, Lough, 239.

Newry, Monroe's raid on, 1643, 49-55 » 69 ; arms

of, 72; surrendered, 211.
News- Letter^ the, established, 175.
Northern Star^ the, 181.
Nugent, Colonel, 183, 274.

Oaks, felling, in Kilwarlin (ri//), 41.

Oge, Randall, 5 : Alexander, 8.

O'Hara, Teig. his case, loi.

O'Mellan's, Friar, Narrative of the Wars of 1641,

200.
O'Neill, Con, his castle, Castlereagh, 160.
O'Neill, Daniel, certificate by, 1663, 123, 262 ;

General, 20S, 240.
O'Neill, Tirlagh, 6, 9. 207; Hugh, Earl of

Tyrone, 22 ; Owen, 8, 224, 238, 240 ; Daniel,

362.

Openshaw, Robert, 31, 259.
Orange ballads, 280.
O'Reillys, the, 203.
Ormond, Earl of, 2189 243, 246.

Para moudras^ 282.

Parliament, the, and Belfast in 1645, 64, 260.

an independent, 179.
Peep of Day Boys, 177.
Pensioners, 10 1, 106.
Pestilence* 206.

Piers and Malbie to the Queen, 4-10.
Piers, Mayor of Carrickfergus, 254.
Pinkerton MSS,, 56, 124, 249, 251, 280.
Pinkerton, William, ix.
Plan to seize fortified towns, 201.
Poorhouse, the Old, 193.
Pope, the, Ambassador from, 224 ; Nuncio 60B,

228, 236, 238. 244.
Portadown burnt, 242.
Portaferry Castle, ruins of, 139.
Portmore Woods, keeper in, 126.
Post first established, 67, 68, 261.
Princes in Ulster, i.

Privy Council, correspondence with, 73-77 ; reply
to Commissioners, 84.

Quail, William, tribute to memory of, 281.
(Jueen Square, Belfast, old houses at, 248,
Quern, the, 120.

Ragged School, first in Ireland, 195.
Rawdon, Sir George, account of, 124-127.
Richard, Protector, 106.

Russell, Thomas, 188-191, 276; Patrick, Wi
petition, 123, 124.

Saintfield, battle near, 274, 275.

Sarleboy, 9.

Savage, family of, 253 ; crests and arms of, 24

Seal of the Commonwealth, 73.

Servants' wages, 265.

Schonberg, Duke of, proclamation by, 143, 263.

264.
Schoolmasters, 106.
Scotch ministers, 75, 103, 104, 261.
Scott, William, 283.
Scots, the, to be expelled, $, 10, 29, 30, 45;

in Belfast, 58-63 ; scheme to transplant, 7*-

96, 261, 262.
Sgian, ancient Irish, 36.
Shane's Castle, view of, 156.
Sherifis, High, of Co. Antrim, 1603 to 1895,257-

259.
Ships advertised to sail, 271.
Silver tankard, 1681, 113.
Simms, Rol)ert, 273.

Smith, John, of Laime, his examination, 161.
I Smith's grant, 24-26.
i Smith, Sir Thomas, portrait, 26.
I Smuggling, 178.
Sorley Boy, 3, 9.

Spain, King of, sends arms to Ireland, 221.
Spinning mills in 1836, 255.
Spinning wheel, 13.

Squib, political, iSo.
Slmb«ne, no.

Stnnmillis, 60, 117-113, ajt.
Steam engine, tirst in Belbit, 383.
SwJO, Dean, 48, 160..

Tandrugee. aoa, 219.

Tim/ra Barius, 283.

Taxation, mode of, in 1637, 46-4S.

Thatot Inncling at Cairickfergus, 181.

Timber in Ulster, 37, 41, 42, 356, 260.

Tir-Connell, bstlles at, 313, J19

Tone, Theobald Wolfe, 181, 181. 188, 189.

Town l»nils, bounds of, ig.

Travers, Sir John, 2.

Trinity College, Dublin, Librnry of, 59 ; s

wlver in, 108.
Tiuun, Archliishop of, 237.
Tyrone, Earl of, 23 : inquisition al, 36-39.

Ubter In 1538 1 ; plantation of, 38 ; assixes
P '6'S. 30-39, 356; arms of, 75 ; camp

United Irishmen, i8l-iSj.

Venables, Colonel R., ExfKritnftd Angltr, 88,

96, 97, 362.
Vinycomb, John, 372.
Volunteers, the, 179-181.

Walker, Thomas, letter from, 31, 256.

Ware. William, portrait of, 351.

Waiingstown, view of, 154.

Wars of 1641, narratives of, 300-157.

Walerfoid City, armi of, 94.

Waterworks, old, SlraDmillis, 116

Wellon, Lt -Col., 63.

Whig Club in 1790, 180.

Whiieabbey, view of, in 1800, 129, 263.

William III. and his Court al Belfast, 14S, 164 ;
gloves, stirrups, and hoise trappings at battle
of the Boyne, [iitl) 149 ; proclamations by,
ISO-IS*

Wilson, 11. il. examination of, 162.

Witches in Island Magee. 161-164, 367.

Woollen trade prohibited, 178.

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— AND —

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Maxwell's (W.H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1708, with Memoirs of

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LiawleSS*S (Hon. Emily) The Story of Ireland from the Earliest Time to the Present.
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